"Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.”
“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.”

Source : John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.234, Macmillan
“I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.”
“A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.”
“We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing.”
“Your life becomes what you believe.”
“If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.”

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