"If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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“Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.”
“You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!”
“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”
“I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.262, Open Road Media
“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press
“You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.”
“There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.”

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