"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself."

--

Source : The Long Goodbye ch. 12 (1953)

Raymond Chandler

“My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.”
“Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.”
“Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.”
“A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.”
“Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.”
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
“So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.”
“A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"”

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