"i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one."

-- Laura Whitcomb

#Boys Quotes #Doors Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.”
“Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.”
“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”
“Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.”
“The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.”
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”
“If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.”
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”

Source : Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”

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