"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."

-- Walter Annenberg

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.”
“I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.”
“I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.”

Source : Source: www.bookforum.com
“Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.”
“Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.”
“Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.”

Source : Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.438
“John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke.”

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