"The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn."

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Edward P. Jones

#Baby Quotes #Blow Quotes #Men Quotes

“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.”
“There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.”
“You canâ€™t think yourself out of a box thatâ€™s made of your thoughts.”
“If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.”
“You are going to love me until I die. Iâ€™m going to make you love me even if it hurts, and when it hurts, Iâ€™m going to make it better, Brooke.”
“Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.”
“If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.”

Source : Charlie Huston (2009). “My Dead Body: A Novel”, p.45, Del Rey
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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