"I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about."

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Florence Scovel Shinn

#Problem Quotes #Bragging Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.”
“Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.”
“It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.”
“God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.”
“You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.”
“The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.”
“It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.34, Macmillan
“It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.”

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