"The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs."

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Source : Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

Jennifer Echols

#Dog Quotes #Boys Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.”

Source : Mary Walton (1991). “Deming management at work”, Putnam Publishing Group
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
“Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.”
“Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.”
“Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”
“Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.”
“I believe itâ€™s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.”
“Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.”

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