"Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

#Order Quotes #People Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”
“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”

Source : "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.
“What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.”
“Humor is man's greatest blessing.”
“I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.”

Source : Letter to William Thomson, January 2, 1851.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
“Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.”

Source : "Off the Page: Nell Freudenberger". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.
“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.”

Source : Jet, March 25, 1985.

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