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#longing

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She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't any right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like." She smiled, and let the cat drop to the floor. "It's like Tiffany's," she said. [...] It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.


Truman Capote


#home #life

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.


Wallace Stegner


#infidelity #longing #touch #loyalty

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.


Wallace Stegner


#attachment #belonging #home #homelessness #roots

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.


Edgar Lee Masters


#boat #end #life #longing #madness

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.


Chris O'Donnell


#beer #film #god #having #i

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.


Richard Powers


#ever #grabs #live #others #racism

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.


Anna Sui


#further #goes #human #human nature #instant

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.


C.S. Lewis


#beauty

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.


George Eliot


#living #longing #wish #wishing #beauty

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.


Margaret Truman


#club #exclusive #most #pride #senate






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