"Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain."

-- Joaquin Miller

#Father Quotes #Rain Quotes #Sunshine Quotes

“I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.”
“The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.”
“I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.”
“But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.”
“Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.”

Source : Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.108, Wesleyan University Press
“Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And hes done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World, a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful hes out there--watching our every move.”
“[Gerald] Ford and [Jimmy] Carter, in fact, were huge disappointments to me. Think about this: They were the presidents around the time of America's historic bicentennial, and yet rarely quoted the founders.”
“Using clichÃ©s is a substitute for thinking”

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