"There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police."

-- Franklin P. Adams

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“When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.”
“There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.”
“A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.”

Source : Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.113, St. Martin's Press
“Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.”
“Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?”
“I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.”

Source : "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.
“One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.”
“[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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