"I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."

-- Alan Bennett

#Beautiful Quotes #Mother Quotes #Land Quotes

“I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you know about the religion, the more likely you're going to go to hell. Many people will find that paradoxical because we tend to think of religion as a way of making ourselves feel better and a way of damning and excluding infidels or reprobates or heretics or what have you. It was very hard for me to find an Islam that belongs to me and doesn't feel like it's been imposed on me.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.”
“Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.”
“I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.”

Source : Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
“My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents never, ever even brought it up. I imagine just looking at me, they were like "Not an army officer."”
“Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.”
“The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.”
“A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?”

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