"A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life."

-- Nick Harkaway

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“Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (2011). “Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition”, p.417, Primedia E-launch LLC
“Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.”
“I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.”

Source : San Diego Museum of Art, Nora Desloge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Phillip Dennis Cate, Julia Frey (1989). “Toulouse-Lautrec: the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, San Diego Museum of Art”, Museum
“The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.”
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
“There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?”
“I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!”
“Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.”

Source : "Giuliani Says City Won't Accept $10 Million Check From Saudi". www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2001.

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