"The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule."

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Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
“The three-breasted woman was very much at the top of my list in [original 'Total recall']. Like I said, I was fourteen! I remember Arnold [Schwarzenegger] pulling that big tracker out of his nose and freaking out about that. I remember going through the immigration booth where their face splits open with that heavyset redheaded lady. So there were a lot of these little moments that I remember.”
“I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.”
“Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.”
“A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.”
“I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'”
“The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.”
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

Source : Wendell Berry (1978). “The unsettling of America: culture & agriculture”, Random House (NY)

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