C.D. Payne quotes
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“I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.”
-- C.D. PayneSource : C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.33, Broadway Books
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“Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?”
-- C.D. PayneSource : C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.182, Broadway Books
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“Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.”
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“Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.”
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“Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?”
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“One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.”
-- C.D. PayneSource : C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.14, Broadway Books
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“I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.”
-- C.D. PayneSource : C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.177, Broadway Books
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”
Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”
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“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
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“Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.”
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“When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.”
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“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
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