"Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper."

-- Janet Frame

#Mistake Quotes #Toilets Quotes #Paper Quotes

“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”

Source : "Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays". Book by Keith Stern, 2009.
“Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.”
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”
“Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press
“When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.”
“My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.”
“Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.”

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