"Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Mother Quotes #Son Quotes #Gay Quotes

“The more awesome you are, the more emotion you create, the more viral it is.”

Source : "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.
“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.”
“On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for somethingâ€¦”
“Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.”
“In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I donâ€™t have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.”
“A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.”
“Better never begin; once begun, better finish.”
“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”

Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.160, SUNY Press

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