There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
Dorothy ParkerRead
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Interpretation
Love is delicate and needs to be handled with care; if held too tightly, it can slip away.
Dorothy Parker's quote illustrates the fleeting nature of love and affection. It suggests that love cannot be forced or controlled; rather, it thrives in an atmosphere of freedom and trust. When one desperately tries to hold onto love, it often becomes elusive, whereas giving it space allows it to flourish.
In practice
This quote can be used in a romantic context during an anniversary dinner to emphasize the importance of trust in a relationship.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
I canβt write five words but that I change seven.
What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.
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