"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong."

-- Mo Udall

“Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.”
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

Source : Flaubert's Parrot ch. 13 (1984)
“From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1966). “Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964”, Vintage
“Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.”
“Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.”

Source : "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.
“A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.”
“Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.”
“When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.”

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