"When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and think "there, I'm so irrational!". But your reluctance to sit on a probably rickety chair is not irrational - you think it's irrational because you have a false view of what irrationality is."

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.”
“Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!”
“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
“A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.”

Source : Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
“What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.”
“[on debates] Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.”

Source : "latimes.com: Candidates look to break out in waning days" by Maria L. La Ganga and Mark Z. Barabak, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.
“He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.”
“I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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