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“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”
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“It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.”
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“Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.”
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“To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.”
Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.97, tredition
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“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”
Source : Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”
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“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”
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“It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.”
Source : Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.”
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“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
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“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
Source : Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group
