"where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?"

-- Louella Parsons

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“A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.”
“Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.”

Source : Chelsea Handler (2014). “My Horizontal Life”, p.29, Random House
“It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.”
“One cannot rest except after steady practice.”
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
“Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.”
“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”

Source : Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
“The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.”

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