"High School Is Lifeâ€™s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)"

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Jenny Lawson

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“Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.”
“I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.”
“[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”
“2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.”
“I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.”
“We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.”
“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.232, Hot Key Books
“Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him”

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