"Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH is linguistically related to chickens and pie? This is the book that any of us who urgently, passionately love words-to read them, roll them over the tongue and learn their life stories while laughing and eating chicken and pie-were lucky enough to be born to read."

-- Cathleen Schine

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Pie Quotes

“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
“Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.”
“You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.”

Source : "The Monkeys Paw". Short story by W. W. Jacobs, 1902.
“The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage
“The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.”
“Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!”
“I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism â€“ Lessons Iâ€™ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey”

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