"Youâ€™re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.”
“I am a very complicated person.”
“Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.”

Source : Victoria Laurie (2008). “Death Perception: A Psychic Eye Mystery”, p.8, Penguin
“To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.”
“I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought â€œto arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.”
“Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.”
“I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.”
“Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.”

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