"HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price."

-- Donald Barthelme

#Witty Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.”

Source : "Are your friends making you fat?" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.
“I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.”
“To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.”
“Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.”
“To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.”
“I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.”
“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”

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