"When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup."

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

Steve Toltz

#Loneliness Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.”
“Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.”

Source : Interview with Ethan Doyle White, ethandoylewhite.blogspot.ru. February 9, 2013.
“The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.”
“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.”
“If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.”
“Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do”

Source : Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”
“In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.”

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