"Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

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“I don't see what the point is in growing up.”
“We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.”
“I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.”
“But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.”
“As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.”
“Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.”
“The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends on intention. Intention depends on intuiting-at least a little bit-the suffering inherent in the human condition and the pain we feel, and cause, when we act out of confusion. It also depends on trusting-at least a little bit-in the possibility of a contented, satisfied mind.”
“Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.”

Source : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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