"Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime."

-- Douglas William Jerrold

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“It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.”
“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.”
“One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.”
“A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.”
“Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.”
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
“We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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