"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

-- John Cheever

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“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage
“So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.”
“And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.”

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.10, Open Road Media
“I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.”
“No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.”
“Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.”
“Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.”
“Like it or not, I'm the new ***** Aquaman buddy.”

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