"He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.”
“Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.”
“God is disappointed when we don't realize that others are trying too.”
“San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.”
“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

Source : Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”
“Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations.”
“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”
“If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.”

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