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I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking? by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. Roger Zelazny
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day. Robert A. Heinlein
Martin Luther quote: "Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way."
Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way. Martin Luther
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is..."
I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here is the easiest way to explain the genius of Johnny Cash: Singing from the perspective of a convicted muderer in the song "Folsom Prison Blues,: Cash is struck by pangs of regret when he sits in his cell and hears a distant train whistle. This is because people on that train are "probably drinkin' coffee." And this is also why Cash seems completely credible as a felon: He doesn't want freedom or friendship or Jesus or a new lawyer. He wants coffee. Within the mind of a killer, complex... Chuck Klosterman
Any other vexations to report?" he asks."I love the word 'vexations.'"It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that."Just the usual ones," she says."How was the weekend?"Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You? Michael Cunningham
As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was. Flannery O'Connor
Charlaine Harris quote: "Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex."
Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex. Charlaine Harris
How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me. Janet Evanovich
They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap! James Patterson
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect. Agatha Christie
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life Rainer Maria Rilke
I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. Louise Brooks
Many liberals believe in G-d; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in G-d but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart. Dennis Prager
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief. James Baldwin

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