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“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.”
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“Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye”
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“You won't go the hell for smoking, you'll just smell like you've been there.”
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“Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.”
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“I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.”
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“It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.”
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“Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.”
Source : Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.”
Source : Carol O'Connell (1995). “Mallory's Oracle”, p.133, Penguin
