"I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong."

-- A. C. Benson

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“I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.”

Source : "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.
“I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.”
“Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.
“It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.”
“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.76, Pan Macmillan
“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.”
“I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.”

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