"You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode."

-- Anita Brookner

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“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.”
“The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .”
“But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.”
“We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.”
“Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?”
“Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!”
“Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.”

Source : "Jose Garces Celebrates Cinco de Mayo" by Sarah Rosenbergtom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. May 5, 2010.
“I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.”

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