"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."

-- Milton Friedman

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“Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.”
“My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She took care of her records. Rachmaninov, Beefheart. For me, most of my records were out of their sleeves and in a drawer somewhere. I married a record collection.”
“Can you believe this crap ?”
“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.”
“Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.”
“The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.229, Macmillan
“If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.”

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