"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

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Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

Calvin Trillin

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“For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.”
“The guy you see on the screen isnâ€™t really me. Iâ€™m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. Iâ€™m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.”
“When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.”
“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

Source : Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books
“Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!”
“We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.”
“These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness isn't next weekend, and it's not last week, it's right now. That was one of the best nights of my life. It felt good to know purpose. I lay in my bunk and I think of all the stories I'm in. I think about all the stories that are in my story. I think about all the stories that are left to be written. And it might be my favorite book yet.”
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

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