"Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Goodness Quotes #Badness Quotes

“I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.”
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
“I don't think you can hold someone accountable for trampling someone else, because that person was probably pushed from behind. But if someone picks your pocket in a crowd, it's no different from any other act of that kind, in another situation.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: John Seabrook on Crowds". live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2011.
“Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.”
“It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.”
“It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.”
“If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.”

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