"Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?"

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Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.115, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Norton Juster

#Octopus Quotes #Heard Quotes #Covered Quotes

“Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.”
“Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2011). “Hellworld”, p.65, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.”
“But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.”
“A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.”
“I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.”
“Being nice? Heâ€™s being horny.”

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