"I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up ***** entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness."

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Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

Patrick deWitt

#Heart Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.11, Beard Books
“Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin
“Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.”
“The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.”
“There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press
“I worry an awful lot about people and how they're faring. When I worry about people, whether their job is squashing their spirit, pushing them into a darker pathway of not feeling good about their life, that forces me to look for what's good. What's going well. That stokes a lot of positive feelings. Although I do worry, I look for the hope.”

Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
“Rummy is one of the easiest of all card games to learn. More people understand the rules of Rummy than of any other card game.”

Source : ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”
“The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.”

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