"Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal."

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“A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have.”

Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.99, Canongate Books
“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”
“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press
“Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.”
“Yesterday in a 25 to 24 vote, Republicans welcomed back Lott back into their leadership and named him minority whip. That is great for Trent. They say minority whip is a stepping stone to Grand Wizard.”
“Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.”
“When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.”
“I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.”

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