Pat Murphy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
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I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.
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I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn’t find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.
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Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.
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If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
-- Pat Murphy
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I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.
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My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.
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The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.
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Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
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I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.
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