"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak."

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Source : Larry McMurtry (1983). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas”

Larry McMurtry

#Texas Quotes #Degenerates Quotes #Eating Quotes

“I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.”
“Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.”
“I am the best wrestler in the world. I've been the best ever since day one when I walked into this company, and I've been vilified and hated since that day because Paul Heyman saw something in me that nobody else wanted to admit. That's right, I'm a Paul Heyman guy. You know who else was a Paul Heyman guy? Brock Lesnar, and he split just like I'm splitting, but the biggest difference between me and Brock is I'm going to leave with the WWE Championship.”

Source : TV Series "WWE Raw" (June 27, 2011), (1993– ).
“For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.”
“I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.”
“The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.”
“We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?”

Source : "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.
“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”

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