"Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface."

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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan

A. Lee Martinez

#Reality Quotes #Looks Quotes #Fruitcake Quotes

“Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].”
“I'm discriminated against all the time.”
“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.”
“Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer]”
“Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.”
“America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.”

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