Balkan Quotes by Shana Alexander

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• The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
• The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
• Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as…
• Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a…
• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
• This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew…
• Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is…
• Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
• A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip…
• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
• The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a…
• The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

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