"I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery."

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Source : "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

Susan Orlean

#Ordinary Quotes #Like You Quotes #Feels Quotes

“The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.”
“The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.”

Source : "MSM Requiem" by Peggy Noonan, www.wsj.com. January 13, 2005.
“Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.”

Source : David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.61, David Lieberman
“I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!”
“She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't just her PJs on the bed anymore. Lucas, eyes wide, sat on the foot of her bed, about four feet from where she stood completely naked. She squealed. He laughed. She dashed for the towel. Once she had it around her, she glared from a still grinning Lucas to the door. "I'm killing Della!" He laughed again. "I'm afraid I might have to protect her for this one.”
“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.44
“Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.”
“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

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