“Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ‘til you both get your cookie.“ —ALEC BALDWIN”
― Anne Mercier, quote from Blush
“Is sex dirty? Only when it’s being done right.”
― Anne Mercier, quote from Blush
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.“ —ANN LANDERS”
― Anne Mercier, quote from Blush
“If you want sympathy you should look between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― Anne Mercier, quote from Blush
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
― Anne Mercier, quote from Blush
“Adults are just outdated children.“ —DR. SEUSS”
― Anne Mercier, quote from Blush
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand.
Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Mirror of Her Dreams
“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time to solve the dilemma and prevent people from engaging, a few years hence, in bitter and fruitless linguistic conflicts. We know all too well what time will do.
The only possible answer is a voluntary policy aimed at strengthening linguistic diversity and based on a simple idea: nowadays everybody obviously needs three languages. The first is his language of identity; the third is English. Between the two we have to promote a third language, freely chosen, which will often but not always be another European language. This will be for everyone the main foreign language taught at school, but it will also be much more than that--the language of the heart, the adopted language, the language you have married, the language you love.”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view. ”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
“I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
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