"The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53"

-- Dean Koontz

#Lying Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Boys Quotes

“There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.”
“If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.”
“Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.”
“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”
“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”

Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.”
“The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.”

Source : Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”
“The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.”

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