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Quotes About Passion

His hands, still clasping her head, tensed suddenly and drew her towards him in a passionate kiss. Lyra thought it looked it seemed more like cruelty than love, and looked at their daemons, to see a strange sight: the snow leopard tense, crouching with her claws in the golden monkey's flesh, and the monkey relaxed, blissful, swooning on the snow.
~ Philip Pullman
There were areas of her life about which she cared passionately and which he was indifferent to or simply unaware of.
~ Philip Pullman
To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do... Don't you worry that John Faa's heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion.
~ Philip Pullman
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
~ Philip Roth
People are unjust to anger — it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
~ Philip Roth
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
~ Philip Roth
I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.
~ Philip Roth
nothing is more uplifting in all of life than righteous anger.
~ Philip Roth
Always pick a redhead, Ee-oh, Manny said. he'll give you the best fight in the world. Redhead'll never quit.
~ Philip Roth
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
~ Philip Roth
Ma appena desideri appassionatamente una cosa sulla quale non puoi esercitare alcun controllo, sei alla vigilia di una grossa delusione: ti stai preparando a farti mettere in ginocchio.
~ Philip Roth
The life he described sounded like paradise to me; that he could think to do nothing better with his time than turn sentences around seemed to me a blessing bestowed not only upon him but upon world literature.
~ Philip Roth
Suppose all I have fallen in love with is that voice deliciously phrasing its English sentences? The man who died for the soothing sound of a highly calibrated relative clause.
~ Philip Roth
Two hundred and sixty miles round-trip, but it was worth it for Drenka's breasts.
~ Philip Roth
è la mancanza di rabbia che finisce per uccidere. Mentre l'aggressività depura e guarisce.
~ Philip Roth
Perchè solo quando scopi riesci a vendicarti, anche se solo per un momento, di tutto ciò che non ami nella vita e di tutte le cose che nella vita ti hanno sconfitto. Solo allora sei più nettamente vivo e più nettamente te stesso. [...] Il sesso non è semplice frizione e divertimento superficiale. Il sesso è anche la vendetta sulla morte.
~ Philip Roth
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
~ Philip Roth
Mario loves Hal so much it makes his heart beat hard.
~ David Foster Wallace
What is the point, then, of dying when the cause is already lost? What is the point of living without a cause worth dying for?
~ David Gemmell
In all his life he had never known such intensity of passion, such completeness of being. Nothing existed in all the world, save this woman beneath him. He had no sense of place or time, nor even identity. There was no war, no mission, no life beyond. There was no guilt, only a joy he had experienced only once before, in a delirium dream on the point of death.
~ David Gemmell
La creazione richiede tempo e amore, la distruzione solo qualche secondo di follia.
~ David Gemmell
If artists, writers and musicians were not just a little delusional, they would all have office jobs.
~ David Gustafson
Speak with expression, not monotonically. Use body language, eye contact, and vocal range. Show the client you have energy around the subject at hand. 5.
~ David H. Maister
You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.
~ David Hare