"How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?"

-- John Cheever

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“I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.”

Source : "Sade soldiers on leisurely to keep love alive" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 24, 2011.
“Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me.”
“Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.”
“Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.”
“That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.”
“Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.”
“The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.”
“I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

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