"If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner"

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Source : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

Henry Sambrooke Leigh

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“Itâ€™s the age of celebrity. Itâ€™s the age of social media. But for we old school girls who donâ€™t want to show up at every single event just â€˜causeÂ I donâ€™t tweetâ€“I have nothing to say. Iâ€™m not on Facebook.Â I mean it sounds like I have plenty to say, but thatâ€™s to people who Iâ€™m in a room with. Iâ€™m not that interesting, and the rest is none of your business.”
“I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.”
“I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.”
“All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.”

Source : "Comics Q&A: Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 1, 2008.
“If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.”
“I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling of like, I've never been to another place like it. It doesn't even feel Californian. Even how it's laid out physically, it's very strange. Like, the weather patterns don't make sense. They do scientifically, but in a practical way it doesn't make any sense. And that weirdness, it really creates some weird thing in the air. But it is you know, on a practical level, it's very expensive, and it's a very business-oriented place, too, and there's a lot of that stuff going on.”
“If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.”
“If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.”

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