"It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational."

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Source : Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Thomas M. Disch

#Hurt Quotes #Squirrels Quotes #Errors Quotes

“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”
“You mean, like a book?”
“I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.”

Source : "Mexico Ruling Party Picks First Woman Presidential Candidate". www.foxnews.com. February 06, 2012.
“I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?”
“As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.”
“I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.”
“She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.”

Source : "Chloe Sevigny's mouse troubles; J. Lo's new fling?; Janet sparks nipple jewelry craze". www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2004.
“The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.”

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