"I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by."

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Source : Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.35, Vintage

Thomas McGuane

#Grandma Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Folding Quotes

“Shut off the internal bashing.”

Source : Melody Carlson (2014). “Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred”, p.76, Tyndale House
“Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.”
“It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.”
“You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.”
“Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.”

Source : "Fictional character: Augustus Waters". "The Fault in Our Stars", www.imdb.com. 2014.
“In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat â€” somewhat, too, the power â€” And thus we half-men struggle.”
“It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.”

Source : Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing
“For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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