"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."

-- Marion Zimmer Bradley

#Pain Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Babe Quotes

“More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.”
“I just don't want to be self-obsessed.”
“When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.”
“In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.”
“It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.”

Source : Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press
“Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.”

Source : "Q&A: Curt Schilling". Interview with Ben Glicksman, www.si.com. November 30, 2010.
“She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere." "That's not true!" "It is," he said. "I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're-" "Closed in," Michael said. "Trapped," Shane added. "Idiots," Claire finished.”
“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”

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