"What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot."

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Source : Jim Thompson (2014). “Murder at the Bijou”, p.43, BookBaby

Jim Thompson

#Smell Quotes #May Quotes #Stink Quotes

“I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.”
“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.”
“As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.”
“The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.”
“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”

Source : "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.
“Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.”
“Anyone who can say and do anything better than that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in his head.”
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

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