"People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness."

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Source : Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

Meg Wolitzer

#Passion Quotes #People Quotes #Long Quotes

“So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life...”
“Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.”
“Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world”
“Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.”
“A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.”

Source : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) ch. 1
“One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.”
“We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.”
“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.”

Source : Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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