"If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success."

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Evan Esar

#Trying Quotes #Your Face Quotes #Ladder Of Success Quotes

“How could they possibly be Japanese planes?”
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.”
“Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.”

Source : Samuel Woodworth (1831). “Melodies, duets, trios, songs, and ballads, pastoral, amatory, sentimental, patriotic, religious, and miscellaneous. Together with metrical epistles, tales and recitations”, p.12
“Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.”
“It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.”

Source : "Without Her Happy Hookers" by Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.
“Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.”

Source : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
“I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.”
“People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.”

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