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- The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
- Hugh Elliott, Bible Versus, 11-27-08
- There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
- Gabrielle Zevin, Love Is Hell: Fan Fictions, 2008
- Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Quotations Blog, 09-19-07
- There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 01-07-09
- It does not always follow that good men are good fathers.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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