"I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mortality Quotes

“Your mind was made to know and love God.”
“I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...”
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”
“You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!”
“I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.”
“He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.”
“One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.”
“If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.”

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