- "I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman." - Diane von Furstenberg
- "It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting." - Lemony Snicket
- "These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery." - Philip Roth[The Dying Animal]
- "Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." - Leo Tolstoy
- "I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech." - Jeffrey McDaniel
- "I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger." - Simone de Beauvoir
- "I am very much down to earth, just not this earth." - Karl Lagerfeld
- "If the grass is greener on the other side, it's because they take care of it." - Cecil Selig
- "It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind." - Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street
- "I think that if you meet somebody you like and are attracted to, you meet somebody you like and are attracted to. Go out with people because you want to be naked with them and still hang out with them after. Sure, a lot of compatibility is being at the same place in your life and liking the same things. But while it's weird to have to affirm that "Pootie Tang was a movie," it's worth it if the old-ass dude you force to watch it laughs his ass off." - Julieanne Smolinski, GQ
- "I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the person you’re trying to reach will be right there waiting." - Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer
- "Just get your foot in the door and outwork everyone around you." - Anderson Cooper
- "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
- "It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it." - Miranda July
- "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- "My life didn’t please me, so I created my life." - Coco Chanel
- "Find what you love and let it kill you." - Charles Bukowski
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