"I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising."

-- Lynne Truss

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“You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.”
“The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.”
“Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.”
“Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.”
“All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.”
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”
“The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.”
“The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.”

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