"He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements."

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Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.199, Penguin

Marisha Pessl

#Trying Quotes #Scar Quotes #Improvement Quotes

“To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.”

Source : "The GQA: Kal Penn". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.
“At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.”
“To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.”
“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”
“As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.”
“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.”
“For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.”
“I want my chirfugging goose back!”

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