"The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter."

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Source : Paul Monette (2014). “Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story”, p.87, Open Road Media

Paul Monette

#Crush Quotes #Secret Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“For I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.”
“Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what he viewed as the superior political and moral position of his own revolutionary movement as a trump card to defeat a well-armed adversary. These ideas were originally generated during his early years as a revolutionary in the 1920s and 1930s, and continued to influence his recommendations in the wars against the French (1946-1954) and the United States (1959-1965).”
“Life didn't promise to be wonderful.”
“I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.”

Source : "Atheneaus, 'Deipnosophistæ', VIII, 19". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.
“For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.”
“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but Iâ€™ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. Iâ€™ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”
“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”

Source : Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.”

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