Fay Weldon · 256 pages
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“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“even as she says it, sees love drain out of his eyes: and somehow, as a stream, which seeks its own level, it flows over into hers, and her fate is sealed. The less he loves, the more she will.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“for a man functions best if he ventures out into the world from a domestic setting in which his restless sexual and procreative energies are given liberty.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“Up there on Olympus, where he’d been raised, where the mountain of reason pierces the sky of the intellect, the talk was all of how the soul suffered if the senses were gratified. Polly Patch would not allow it. She claimed, as the Devil would, that the senses and the soul were one: that gratifying one was to gratify the other.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“We discuss things, rather than ideas; we exchange information, not theories; we keep ourselves steady by thinking about the particular. The general is frightening.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“want revenge. I want power. I want money. I want to be loved and not love in return.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Fay Weldon
Born place: in Alvechurch, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 22, 1931
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“Franklin’s inquisitive mind craved stimulation, consistently gravitating toward whatever community of intellects asked the most intriguing questions; his expansive temperament sought souls that resonated with his own generosity and sense of virtue. In five years in England he had found more of both than in a lifetime in America. “Of all the enviable things England has,” he told Polly Stevenson, “I envy most its people. Why should that petty island, which compared to America is but like a stepping stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one’s shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging 100 leagues of our vast forests?” He left such people reluctantly and, he trusted, temporarily.”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“Five minutes,” I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“طالما لم يوضع الوهم في مواجهة مع الحقيقة, فلا يظهر على أنه وهم, وطالما لا توضع الحياة "في الكذب" في مواجهة الحياة "في الحقيقة" فلا يوجد احتمال أن ينكشف زيفها. وما أن يصبح هذا الاحتمال وارداً فإن وجودها يصبح مهددا من جذوره وبالكامل. ولا يهم حجم المساحة التي تحتلها هذه الإمكانية. فإن قوتها ليست في جانبها المادي, لكن في الضوء الذي تصدره دعامات النظام والتي تنقض على اساسها الهش: فبائع الخضراوات لم يهدد تركيبة السلطة بشخصه وبقوته الحقيقية, لكن هددها بأبعاد ما فعله, وتجاوزه إياه, بما أشعه على البيئة المحيطة به - وبالطبع بالنتائج الغير محسوبة التي ستسفر انتشار هذه الأشعة.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards of our collective public life.”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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