"Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous."

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Tom Robbins

#Two Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Lilies Quotes

“In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”
“I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.”
“I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive â€” it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black teenager.”
“The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.”

Source : "Tales of Moonlight and Rain". Book by Ueda Akinari, www.newyorker.com. 1776.
“You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.”
“The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.”

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