"To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth."

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Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

Esi Edugyan

#Chocolate Quotes #Earth Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.”
“Be a gentleman farmer.”
“Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.”

Source : Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.170, Penguin
“Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.”
“Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out.”
“A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.”
“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”

Source : Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”

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