"A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal."
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"From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together."
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
"Hemidemisemiquaver [10w] The composer evened the score by ending in a hemidemisemiquaver."
"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."
"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."
"Soulmate My Ass [10w] Aspire to marry the person the least wrong for you."
"I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley."
"To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex."
"Are you any good at it?""Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best."
"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds."
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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet"
"Sixty is the New Fifty The good news is sixty is the new fifty.The bad news is twenty is the new ten."
"The Albanian Art of Subtle Seduction [10w] "You have an amazing mind now show me your tits."
"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"
"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."
"Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care."
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