"A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book."

-- Robert M. Gates

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“You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.”
“Purpose without virtue is vanity.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.”
“"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.”
“The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin. But more than that, the Monkey Girl also suggested that I need not be afraid of the fragile happily-ever-after, that I had resources of my own, and that I would not have to contort myself into a restrictive social role for fear of losing that fairytale ending.”
“I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.”

Source : Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan
“God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.”
“As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.”

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