In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
J. August Strindberg
Related By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or... ISMAN H. SURYAMAN This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm... STEPHEN RICHARDS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG Happiness is like peeing your pants...
Everyone can see it,But only you can feel the warmth. A FRIEND We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness. JEFFREY FRY 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. GRETA GARBO Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend. DAVID GILMOUR So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane. RAY LIOTTA What do I look for in a friend? You! ANTHONY T.HINCKS You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. GRETA GARBO He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing ... BARRY MANN Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS Jane Heard. ONE It's one thing to have your partner tell you he or she has multiple personalities, and it's another ... TRACY ALDERMAN Once the rules are set, I would know which one would give me a better deal, ... But you also run the... KWEK LENG BENG Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We're not letting you just come into our community anymore without a partner or without one of us be... MAGIC JOHNSON Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unus... DADA BHAGWAN Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a... LUCAS SCOTT Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a ... JEFF BRIDGES As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. JEFF RICH Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and t... CHARLES CALEB COLTON My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a... ROBERT KIYOSAKI I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS In my eye, China is a nation that can always be a friend and partner of Africa. ALPHA OUMAR KONARE the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anti... JIM COSTA We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex... UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world. PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER
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AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed. AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays], AUGUST WILSON I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready. AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up! AUGUST WILSON I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible. AUGUST WILSON Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ... AUGUST WILSON it was as far away from New York as I could get. AUGUST WILSON [With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a... AUGUST WILSON He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me... AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson. AUGUST WILSON For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I... AUGUST WILSON There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl... AUGUST WILSON What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob... AUGUST WILSON I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i... AUGUST WILSON You can only close if you opened. AUGUST WILSON American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have... AUGUST WILSON I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year. AUGUST WILSON Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ... AUGUST WILSON Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a... AUGUST WILSON In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. AUGUST SANDER The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it... AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools. AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi... AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent. AUGUST HECKSCHER We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr... AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers. AUGUST HANNING My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ... AUGUST WILSON I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for. J.M. AUGUST I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... AUGUST WILSON The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh... AUGUST KROGH Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ... AUGUST WILSON