"I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“When people search for "Life Quotes" they are often looking for quotes about life. Why do the major search engines only give them hundreds of pages of commercial garbage about Life Insurance Quotes?”
“I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.”
“Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot.Â The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.”
“Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes'.”
“Dancing is as old as love.”
“There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”

Source : Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster
“Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.”
“It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!”

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