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Daddy told his jokes the same way he’d ordered pizza, written poetry, and written his doctoral thesis—in APA format.
“The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.”
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
“Perhaps one should expect to be attended to by philosophers in Edinburgh delicatessens, just as one might be waited upon by psychoanalysts in the restaurants of Buenos Aires. Is the braised beef really what you want?”
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
“There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers.”
― The Sunday Philosophy Club
― The Sunday Philosophy Club
“You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of us have it. It comes in different forms, but it is always the same duty. We have to forgive.”
― The Careful Use of Compliments
― The Careful Use of Compliments
“Although she was unenthusiastic about theology, she had long since realised that the real point of prayer was not to flatter those addressed; prayer was a form of meditation, she decided, and it did not detract from its efficacy that nobody was listening.”
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
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