"Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah."

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Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.133, Penguin

Steve Kluger

#Squares Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Carolina Quotes

“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”

Source : "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2007.
“You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.”
“Every man, who parrots the cry of â€˜stand by the Presidentâ€™ without adding the proviso â€˜so far as he serves the Republicâ€™ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.”
“I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.”
“we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.”
“I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!”
“I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.”
“There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.”

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