"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.
“The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.”

Source : "Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself". Book by Sabrina Ward Harrison, 2000.
“I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.”
“It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.”

Source : Giambattista Basile, John Edward Taylor, George Cruikshank (1850). “The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor”, p.338
“The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.”
“An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.”
“The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.”
“In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color”

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