"Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing hidden about it," he replied. My objective is obvious. I've decided I'd rather have you describe me as 'sweet' than a 'slagging pain in the tailset.'" "Really?" "Well..." he looked up from the bag. "Maybe not in public." "I might be able to confine myself to saying it in private, if you gave me a reason." Taya met his eyes, and he blushed."

-- Dru Pagliassotti

#Sweet Quotes #Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Any damn fool can predict the past.”

Source : Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press
“If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.”
“In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware”

Source : Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
“I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.”
“We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.”
“Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.”
“Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.”

Source : Izaak Walton (1878). “The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. New illustr. ed., with notes by G.C. Davies”
“There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.”

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