"He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

Margaret Halsey

#Sarcastic Quotes #Careers Quotes #Stomach Quotes

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
“Itâ€™s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.”
“I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.”
“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.”
“Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.”

Source : Interview with Jim Muir, news.bbc.co.uk. April 18, 2005.
“And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.”

Source : "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.
“Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.”

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