"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

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Source : "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

Russell Baker

#Break Up Quotes #Work Quotes #Science Quotes

“This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.”
“This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.”

Source : Song: Spill the Wine
“As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.”
“Once youâ€™ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.”
“I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.”
“We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away”

Source : Nicola Kalinsky, Thomas Gainsborough (1995). “Gainsborough”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited
“If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.”
“When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?”

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