"Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for."

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Source : Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner

Reynolds Price

#Monkeys Quotes #Way Quotes #Lice Quotes

“Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”
“No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.”
“Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.”
“I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.”
“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”
“Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.”

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