"I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book."

-- Don Rickles

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Tired Quotes

“People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.”
“I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.”
“Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.”
“Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller.”

Source : Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated
“The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.”

Source : "The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation" by Edward Shorter, (p. 66), 2000.
“Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.”

Source : Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.66, Open Road Media
“Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.”

Source : "Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86" by Bruce Weber and Julie Rehmeyer, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2014.

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