"I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born."

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Source : Jeff Kinney (2012). “Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 6)”, p.120, Penguin UK

Jeff Kinney

#Taken Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Born Quotes

“The easiest thing to feel is sadness.”
“You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.”
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”
“America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.”
“The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
“Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.”
“What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. Itâ€™s too bad thereâ€™s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastryâ€”which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you donâ€™t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat. The work-around is to buy what you need. Iâ€™m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.”
“If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.”

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