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Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.Jonathan Safran Foer
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When God Created Mothers"

When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way."

It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."

That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded.

One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of...more
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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Robert Frost
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
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