"You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Confusing Quotes #Quitting Quotes #Madness Quotes

“If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.”
“You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?”

Source : Moira J. Moore (2011). “Heroes at Odds”, p.77, Penguin
“You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.”
“Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.”
“When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
“I've never flown a kite.”
“I am suspending my presidential campaign.”

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