"Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly."

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Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1987). “Joanna's Husband and David's Wife”, Dell Publishing Company

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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“You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.”
“Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.”
“I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.”
“You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.”
“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”
“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.”
“Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.”

Source : "Fictional character: Master Li Mu Bai". "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.”

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