"the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me."

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Ralph Ellison

#Ornery Quotes #World Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.”
“Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN--I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.' 'What?' 'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?' 'You don't have plants, Tad.' 'I know. I just always wanted to say that.”
“Kids are like heroin, a little ***** addiction. When itâ€™s bad, youâ€™ve never been so miserable, but when itâ€™s good youâ€™ve never been so high.”
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”

Source : Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books
“Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.”
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“The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.”

Source : June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
“Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.”

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