"I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar."

-- Cynthia Ozick

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“My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.”
“I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.”

Source : Source: www.sportsdouchebags.com
“I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree.”

Source : "Gay marriage debate divides Dick Cheney's daughters". "PM" with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. November 19, 2013.
“A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.”
“Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1841). “The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse ...”, p.186
“But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.”
“Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.”
“It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.”

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