"Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently."

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Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Graeme Simsion

#Creating Quotes #Amusement Quotes

“Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.”
“Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.”
“Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.”
“It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.”
“It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.”
“A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.”

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“She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

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