Wednesday, July 21, 2004
July 21, 2004
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last – more than passion or even sex!"
- Simone Signoret (1921 - 1985), French actress: in the "Daily Mail" (London), July 4, 1978.
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
- Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983), American philosopher: "The Passionate State of Mind", 1955.
"I don’t know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives."
- Annie Dillard (b. 1945), American author and poet: "Pilgrim on Tinker Creek", 1974.
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"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last – more than passion or even sex!"
- Simone Signoret (1921 - 1985), French actress: in the "Daily Mail" (London), July 4, 1978.
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
- Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983), American philosopher: "The Passionate State of Mind", 1955.
"I don’t know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives."
- Annie Dillard (b. 1945), American author and poet: "Pilgrim on Tinker Creek", 1974.
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