"No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued."

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Source : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Sheri Holman

#Men Quotes #Matter Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.”
“People love stories. They need stories.”

Source : "Caroline Leavitt, Best-selling Author, On Overcoming Nasty Writing Teachers, How to Write a Bestseller and Never Giving Up". Interview with David Henry Sterry, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.
“We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.”
“The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.”
“Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
“What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.”
“As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.”
“Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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