"But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it ..."

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Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media

Alison Lurie

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Honest always sells. Always has, always will.”
“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”
“A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.”
“It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.”
“People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.”

Source : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
“When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.”
“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”
“When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.”

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