"The more it changes, the more it's the same thing."

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Alphonse Karr

“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”
“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.”

Source : "How funny women fought hard for their place in the spotlight" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.
“Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.”

Source : Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company
“Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'”
“There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.”
“My style is kneeing people in the face.”
“If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.”

Source : James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.96, Open Road Media
“Why do all your friends talk like books?”

Source : Pamela Dean (2006). “Tam Lin”, p.91, Penguin

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