"I'm not trying to do anything too tricky."

-- Nate Silver

#Trying Quotes #Tricky Quotes

“If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.”
“Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.”
“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing
“It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.”

Source : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.
“As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.”
“Reality is fabricated out of desire.”

Source : Man Ray, Janus (1980). “Man Ray, the photographic image”, Barrons Educational Series Inc
“My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.”
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

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