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“There's no such thing as poetry. It's just prose with fucked up punctuation and line breaks.”
― Scott Ward

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”
― Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage

“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”
― Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!”
― Dee Dee Ramone

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
― steve martin

“I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs

“When we show a friend a city one has already visited, we feel the same pride as when we point out a woman whose lover we have been.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Judah Halevi

“Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha

“Everyone it didn't happen to seems to have a bold opinion about what I ought to take away from this terrible event.”
― Abby Maslin, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

“Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.”
― E.B. White, Stuart Little

“There’s something about north,” he said, “something that sets it apart from all other directions. A person who is heading north is not making any mistake, in my opinion.”
“That’s the way I look at it,” said Stuart. “I rather expect that from now on I shall be traveling north until the end of my days.”
― E.B. White, Stuart Little

“To survive we must simply live. To love, we must love hard.”
― Abby Maslin, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

“Neither TC nor I would choose to spend our lives living in fear of those who might hurt us. Fear doesn't keep people safe, we've always seemed to implicitly agree. It keeps them small and scared.”
― Abby Maslin, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

“Reader, it gives me no pleasure to inform you that behind me was a floor-to-ceiling display, museum, of Tony Packo’s–branded gender pickles—and no, not those gender pickles. There is a second brand of gender pickles, and they are even hornier. It absolutely wrenches my guts to let you know that after ordering the Hungarian hot dog, which I will foreshadow is terrific, I carefully inspected every aggressively anthropomorphized heterosexual pickle, pepper, sausage, and tomato. It makes me sick to know it is my duty as the sole chronicler of This Sort of Thing to disclose what I have learned. It feels awful to share that there appears to be a storyline to this wall of pickles and mustard, a love story I will retell as faithfully as possible. With deepest regrets, this is the story of how the Tony Packo’s pickle and the Tony Packo’s pepper fucked each other and had a baby.”
― Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

“WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really.”
― Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

“The dog is grilled to a slight char, strangled in a strip of grilled bacon, and topped with diced tomato, onion (crude and fried), winnie (I cannot for the life of me figure out what this is), mayonnaise, mustard and—wait for it—beans. The sheer risk factor of beans on a hot dog”
― Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs