"I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too."

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Source : Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.29, Penguin

Heather King

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Ever After Quotes

“What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.”
“Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'”
“Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.”

Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan
“Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.”
“They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.”
“My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences”
“A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.”
“In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.”

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