"Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader"

-- Lionel Trilling

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“In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.”
“It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'”

Source : "Q&A: Cheryl Hines on Suburgatory and Being 'Cheryl'". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2012.
“Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”
“Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.”
“Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.”
“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.”
“The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.”
“I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.”

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