"Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.145, Penguin

Melissa Bank

#Beautiful Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Gasoline Quotes

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
“I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.”
“Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?”
“Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.”
“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books
“SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.”
“I really do believe 2012 is coming. What do you think about that?”
“French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.”

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