"You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that."

-- Abe Burrows

#Curves Quotes #Lines Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”
“Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.”
“Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful”
“I love color. I'm enjoying trying all different shades. Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.”
“I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.”
“You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.”

Source : Genevieve Valentine (2015). “The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.”
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”

Source : Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

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