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I loved to say quasi. I was saying it now a lot, instead of sort of, or kind of, and it had become a tic. "I am quasi ready to go," I would announce. Or, "I'm feeling a bit quasi today." Murph called me Quasimodo. Or Kami-quasi. Or wild and quasi girl. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

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There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Then, as if getting blown up is not enough to worry about, after I take a seat on the steps, I get a look at the choir. Thirty singers and from where I’m sitting, it looks like only two of them are black. It’s not like I’m saying suburban white people shouldn’t sing. Because I love Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt ↗

— Charles Dickens

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I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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I'd love to give you something but what would help? ↗

— Ikkyu

#poetry #zen #love

I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy. ↗

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

#toughness #love

Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility? ↗

— David Bajo

#work #love

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species. ↗

— Alice Steinbach

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At the time I didn't realize their lie was a defense against the fear they had of losing their mother. I was still too young to understand that most lies were not about stealing or fighting or cheating but were just ways by which a person shrinks their whole world down to a size they can keep protected in the palm of one hand. ↗

— Jack Gantos

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