"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."

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Source : The Strange Necessity (1928) "The Tosh Horse"

Rebecca West

#Funny Quotes #Sarcastic Quotes #Women Quotes

“I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.”
“Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.”
“If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.”
“Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.”
“I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death”
“A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.”
“I would rather be whole than good.”
“At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.”

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