"A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life."

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Source : "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

Elayne Boosler

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Pages Quotes

“When I heard that one in four women is affected by domestic violence in their lifetime, I was horrified. That's why this campaign is so important. A real man is happy to support the women in his life and appreciate them. My mother and my sisters are so important to me. Violence just doesn't make any sense.”
“Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit.”
“I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.”
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”
“Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.”
“Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.”
“I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.”
“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.630, Macmillan

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