"All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)"

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Norma Fox Mazer

#Intelligent Quotes #Pigs Quotes #People Quotes

“I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.”
“I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.”
“In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.”

Source : "Science", Vol. 107 ( p. 665), June 25, 1948.
“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”
“I drink every night. But I don't hang out and party. Not that I'm selling out Madison Square Garden, but in the old days after a show you could hang out with a few people. But now you're hanging around with 20 people, all of whom don't know each other, and they're all, "Leave my outgoing greeting on my voice mail, man, come on!"”
“Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.”
“Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.”

Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books
“At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.”

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