"I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back."

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Source : Joey Comeau (2009). “Overqualified”, E C W Press

Joey Comeau

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“Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.”
“The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.”
“I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.”
“Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
“Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.”

Source : "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.
“Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”
“Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.”
“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”

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