"I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high."

-- Elizabeth Jane Howard

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“It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.”
“A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.”
“In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a shot as a salesman for a shift. What happened was I sold two cars in one day and they offered me the position. After a while I decided I didn't want the job and so I told the manager I'd contracted HIV from having unprotected sex. It was only half true but I'd been feeling sick and somehow convinced myself I was really dying. I remember I sat in my boss' office, the both of us crying. Later than night he calls my dad and says 'I'm sorry your son has HIV.' It was terrible.”
“I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.”
“To set the record straight, Iâ€™m not upset for me, but for all the girls out there that are struggling with their body image.”
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?”
“I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.”
“I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.”

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