One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it todescribe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods....
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Alexandra Adornetto
Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
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Prixie
Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. that I wasn't previously aware of.
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Douglas Adams
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
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Dejan Stojanovic
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The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking seams, merely to keep the boat afloat, while the former doth his work as doth a man with a maid: he fills the gap, but with vigor,...
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse, ' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' --...
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years a Barrister, fifty a Physician, fifty a Clergyman, fifty a Soldier! Aye, and fifty a Thief, and fifty a Judge! AllRoads are fine...
Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been speaking of myself without delight or alternative as self-consciousness pure and sour; I declare now that even that isn't true. I'm not aware of myself at...
