"Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever."

-- Anne Lamott

#Disappointment Quotes #Ends Quotes #Coming To An End Quotes

“Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.”
“God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.”
“We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.”
“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.”
“There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'”
“There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.”
“All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the boards, firing away at the rapt groundlings with his blank verses, not less of a word-slinger and spellbinder than the Bard himself and therefore not to be considered too curiously on such matters as relevance, coherence, consistency, propriety, sanity, common decency.”
“We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.”

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