And I was cooking for three, and teaching, and taking care of a man who’d just collapsed in my house; learning to cook like June Cleaver didn’t exactly seem an option.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
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Stephanie Klein
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true...
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Marjane Satrapi
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
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Tina Fey
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
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Kevin Alan Lee
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
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Mark Rowlands
More Quotes By Mark Doty
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...
