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“At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.”

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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is an American journalist and author renowned for his in-depth research into political figures and history. His work is known for its thorough investigation and analytical depth, particularly his biographical series on U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. more

“It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.”

Seems Earth Beautiful Moving Next Space Mystery Honor Shapes Privilege Pale

Author:Carole Maso

“I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.”

I Can Tolerate Vertical Horizontal

Book:Nora Roberts' MacGregors Collection:

Source: Nora Roberts' MacGregors Collection:

“When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.”

Body Hands Eye Wanted Felt Feet Mouths Weight Lays Teeth Naked Enjoyed Touched Length Her Eyes Crushed Shiver Sharpness Many Hands

Book:DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA

Source: DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA

“One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.”

People World Problem Today Effort Accepting Cases Support Groups Research Evidence Suits Worldview World Today Validity Mind Blowing Reassurance Large Groups Grapevine

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.”

People Way Wells Said Two Moments Eye Hate Sun Like You Ought Mets I Hate Relation Careful Accidents My Way Drivers Grey Rotten Careless I Like You Why I Like You

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”

Heart Constant Riot

Book:The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

“He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

Ideas Wanted Past Gone Daisies Great Gatsby Gatsby Great Gatsby Important Great Gatsby Love Gatsby Love Great Gatsby Nick Great Gatsby Nick Carraway

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!”