"Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life."

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Source : Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books

Dorothy B. Hughes

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“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.”

Source : Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”
“The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.”
“I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.”

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“I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone”

Source : Song: No Place That Far
“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”
“The Saint Bernards work best in teams of at least three dogs. They are sent out on patrols following storms, and they wander the paths looking for stranded travelers. If they come upon a victim, two dogs lie down beside the person to keep him warm; one of the two licks his face to stimulate him back to consciousness. Meanwhile, another dog will have already started back to the hospice to sound the alarm.”
“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”
“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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