"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

-- Pearl S. Buck

“I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.”
“When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.”

Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.
“Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.”

Source : 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
“The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.”
“The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.”
“You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.”
“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”

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