"My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats."

-- John Cheever

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“Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.”
“You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.”
“Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.”
“A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.”
“I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
“I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.”
“You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.”

Source : Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.56, Multnomah
“The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.”

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