"I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement."

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Source : Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

Sam Lipsyte

#Mistake Quotes #Errors Quotes #Office Quotes

“Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.”
“I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.”

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“It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.”
“Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .”

Source : M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.23, Crimson Romance
“He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus.”
“Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.”
“In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.”
“So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.”

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