"I have read your book and much like it."

-- Moses Hadas

#Witty Quotes #Book Quotes #Humorous Quotes

“How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.”
“I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked her eyes, and slowly a smile stretched her lips. She strolled to the truck and got in. "So, are you homicidal or merely as irritable as a wounded buffalo?" "About halfway in between," he said through clenched teeth. "Anything I can do to help?" His eyes were narrow and intense. "It isn't just the cigarettes. Take off your panties and lock your legs around me, and I'll show you.”
“In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.”
“Empathy isnâ€™t just something that happens to us â€” a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain â€” itâ€™s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.”
“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”
“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.”
“Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.”
“Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.”

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