"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."

-- Mark Twain

#New Year Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.”
“If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.”
“I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.”
“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”
“Don't settle for less than is possible.”
“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.”
“There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.”
“I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we donâ€™t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.362, Macmillan

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