Making Quotes (page 194)

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• great
• appearance
• greatness

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hearmuch; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of ourfriends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as muchas possibly we can; to hearken. Benjamin Franklin

• happy
• unhappy
• make happy

The overall intent is to make everyone sufficiently happy (or in some cases, insufficiently unhappy). Larry Wall

• achievement
• sick
• diet

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! Michael Pollan

• happy
• best
• end

Staying true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result. Ashley Olsen

• dark
• brother
• sharing

Sharing dark skin doesn't necessarily make two men brothers Sherman Alexie

• life
• powerful
• good

The path trodden by wayfarers and pilgrims followed the railway and then turned into the fields. Here Lara stopped, closed her eyes and took a good breath of the air which carried all the smells of the huge countryside. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the meaning of her life. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, then,... Boris Pasternak

• pain
• personal
• joy

he'd know about the role of mirror neurons in the brain, special cells in the premotor cortex that fire right before a person reaches for a rock, steps forward, turns away, begins to smile. Amazingly, the same neurons fire whether we do something or watch someone else do the same thing, and both summon similar feelings. Learning form our own mishaps isn't as safe as learning from someone else's, which helps us decipher the world of intentions, making our social whirl possible. The brain... Diane Ackerman

• men
• real
• imagination

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. Jules Verne

• knows
• normal
• normality

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. Haruki Murakami

• world
• understanding
• different

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is... Arundhati Roy

• saying
• to live
• die

Let the people who never find true lovekeep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. Wislawa Szymborska

• good times
• lost time
• time

We're lost, but we're making good time. Yogi Berra

• real
• people
• wonderful

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization leaders have found each other, gotten all involved in each others' social lives, and have ended up talking to nobody but each other. They have not found their followers. Everything tends to degenerate into ineffective cliques, as a natural course.... Jane Jacobs

• humanity
• much
• human

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them. Zora Neale Hurston

• moon
• nobody
• knew

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more. Tom Robbins