"No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close."

-- Robert Jackson Bennett

#Doe Quotes #Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Basically, man, I just love myself.”
“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”
“We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.”
“How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.”
“I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
“I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.”
“If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.”

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