"The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Marriage Quotes

“It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.”
“You ever tried to pick up your teeth with a bunch of broken fingers”
“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when youâ€™re doing a sitcom, people donâ€™t give you a lot of credit, because youâ€™ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if itâ€™s successful.”
“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press
“True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.286, Courier Corporation
“I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.”
“Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”

Source : "Who's Afraid of Modern Art?". The Dimbleby Lecture, 2000.
“Live today, for tomorrow we die.”

Source : Alan Furst (2008). “Night Soldiers: A Novel”, p.105, Random House

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