"Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate."

-- Tom Robbins

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Contradictory Quotes

“In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
“The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.”
“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
“The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.”
“There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.”
“She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.”
“It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.”

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