"I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility."

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Source : "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In". TV Movie, November 7, 2006.

Paula Poundstone

#Memories Quotes #Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.”
“I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made world was the brainchild of a monster. I mean, slaves built most of the ancient wonders, our city skylines are dominated by the product of sometimes very ruthless capitalist ideals. There's a horrifying thought that I often wonder, which is, are monsters sometimes necessary?”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.”
“Tomorrow doesn't really exist.”
“John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.”
“When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!”
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

Source : "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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