"I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people."

-- Roz Chast

#Fighting Quotes #Shopping Quotes #People Quotes

“People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)”
“Freedom is Letting Go.”
“Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.”
“When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won't. I like that - to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they're more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that's really interesting, how people relate to those languages.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.”
“I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.”
“I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.”
“... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”

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