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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#adolescence #childhood #could #early #early life

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#behind #beneath #hides #horror #lies

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#additional #basic #basis #benefit #broker

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #being #constantly #determine #environment

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#already #designs #enabled #enemy #federal

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#day #discover #human #human mind #into

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ↗

— Euripides

#err #forgive #men #must #needs

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there? ↗

— Neil LaBute

#about #bit #enough #general #go

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#cage #doing #down #going #had

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#humor #just #lot #love #men