"At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube."

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Myla Goldberg

#Morning Quotes #Nice Quotes #Home Quotes

“Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.”
“Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.”
“Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.”

Source : Livy (1834). “Livy”, p.56
“[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.”
“It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.”
“I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo: No Junk Food for Stella!" by Paul Chi, celebritybabies.people.com. May 6, 2010.
“Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.”
“Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.”

Source : Paul Ekman (2015). “Odhalené emoce: Naučte se rozpoznávat výrazy tváře a pocity druhých”, p.1, Jan Melvil Publishing

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