"I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks."

-- Art Donovan

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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
“There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.”
“There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.”

Source : James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”
“Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? Itâ€™s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.”

Source : Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
“Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.”
“To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.”
“Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.”

Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.8, Harper Collins

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