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Will Rogers quote: "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers
Anyhow, she thought, they are aware of each other; they live in each other; what else is love, she asked, listening to their laughter. Virginia Woolf
Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist. John Gresham Machen
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything..."
But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises. Barbara Kingsolver
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of..."
He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death Cormac McCarthy
If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only... Ray Bradbury
Ann Patchett quote: "that it was so completely their own that it would have been..."
...that it was so completely their own that it would have been pointless to even try to speak of it to someone else. Ann Patchett
Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. Rex Stout
It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all. Dorothy Day
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations Milan Kundera
We both touched wood on the cafe table and the waiter came to see what it was we wanted. But what we wanted he, nor anyone else, nor knocking on wood or on marble, as this cafe table-top was, could ever bring us. But we did not know it that night and we were very happy. Ernest Hemingway
So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there. Jack Finney
Nora Roberts quote: "You almost forget there's any place else in the world."
You almost forget there's any place else in the world. Nora Roberts
I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing. Tom Stoppard
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the wide expanses they saw on their walks, the... Boris Pasternak

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