All Quotes By Tag: Adultery

“If God want to really help anyone, He will cause him or her to know and understand what vanity is early in life.”

“Your greatest regrets in life will not come from your past failures; they would come from remembering the amount of time you spent in pursuing vain things.”

“If God would help any man, He will make him know and understand what vanity is early in life.”

“To live only for pleasure is to die while living.”

“To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end,when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach,and the weather day after dayis flawless,and the forecastis hurricane.”

“Bad books on writing tell you to “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

“You must promise me. You can’t desire the end without desiring the means.’Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.”

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents–were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice, revolution, war, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the individual against society, success and failure, murder, suicide, death, God.”

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”