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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad



Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas. ~Roseanne, "Don't Make Me Over," May 1992, spoken by character Dan Conner



Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess



Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben



Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore



Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth. ~Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, "Sources, References, and Notes," 1984



Extract: a passage from a literary work.



Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.) ~Robert A. Heinlein



At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung



Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~Erich Fromm



Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon



With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen



Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ~Roger Caras



I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. ~Anita Loos



The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ~Stanley J. Randall



A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. ~Toni Morrison



Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown



I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known. ~Author Unknown