"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?"

-- Armistead Maupin

#Glasses Quotes #Light Quotes #Half Quotes

“If we are not free, no one will respect us.”
“I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.”

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“He shifted his weight, throwing his good leg off the bed as if he were going to try to stand. â€œWhat are you doing?â€ I demanded through the tears. â€œLie down, you idiot, youâ€™ll hurt yourself!â€ I jumped to my feet and pushed his good shoulder down with two hands. He surrendered, leaning back with a gasp of pain, but he grabbed me around my waist and pulled me down on the bed, against his good side. I curled up there, trying to stifle the silly sobs against his hot skin.”
“Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.”
“I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.”
“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”
“Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.”
“Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.”

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