"An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur."

-- Anna Quindlen

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“Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1913). “Poems by Jean Ingelow”
“A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2007). “Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery”, p.8, Penguin
“What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.”
“I want a girl who doesn't know that she's beautiful, so i have an excuse to let her know all the time”
“The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.”
“Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.”
“Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.”
“I'm givin' more flat lines to ***** than loose-leaf.”

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