"The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election."

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Earl Wilson

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“This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.”
“I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.”
“People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.”
“A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
“Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.”
“We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.”
“I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.”

Source : "Wainwright Wins 14th Cardinals 9, Padres 2 • Pitcher Also Hits His Second Home Run of the Season to Get Scoring Going in Rout Against San Diego". www.stltoday.com. August 15, 2009.
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.79, Penguin

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