"The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Leigh Newman

#Goal Quotes #Swim Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.”
“Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.”
“I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.”

Source : "Chef Burrell shares restaurant secrets in TV show". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. July 8, 2008.
“Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.”
“I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.”
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press
“When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.”

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