"Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror."

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Anne Roiphe

#Fun Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Self Quotes

“I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?”
“If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.”
“A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.31, New York Review of Books
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.”
“I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.”
“High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.”
“Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.”
“My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.”

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