"He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed."

-- John Barth

#Secret Quotes #Wish Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.”

Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.”
“I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.”

Source : William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”
“Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.”
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
“Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.”
“All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.”

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