"The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Doors Quotes #Essence Quotes #Police Quotes

“I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today.”
“We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.”
“Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.”
“It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.”
“For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”
“According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.”
“It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.”
“I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.”

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