"A laxity pervades the popular use of words."

-- Charles Lamb

“Break open the forbidden happiness.”
“What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'”
“You can read minds, and you didn't tell me?â€ Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. â€œHey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankinâ€™ your chain.â€ He looked away. â€œAre you doinâ€™ it now? You're doinâ€™ it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head.â€ He backed away from me and into the bookshelf. â€œI can't read your mind, you idiot.”
“I grew up watching Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Batman. You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.”
“Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace, Steven Wilhelm (2016). “Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.”
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night.”
“Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.”

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