"Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer"

-- Irvin D. Yalom

“Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.”
“But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.”
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Source : "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.
“Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.”
“Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.”
“I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.”
“Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.”

Source : Barry Neil Kaufman (1996). “Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions”, Option Institute
“Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.”

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