‘You might as well like yourself, just think of all the time you’re going to have to spend with you.’
Category: Quote Of The Week
Double Quote Of The Week
I love Nora Ephron. Sadly, she is no longer with us but her spirit lives on and I’m re-reading some of her stuff. I couldn’t decide between these two quotes, so I thought, I’ll do both.
‘Many years ago, when I was in analysis, my therapist used to say, “Love is homesickness.” What she meant was that you tend to fall in love with someone who reminds you of one of your parents. This, of course, is one of those things that analysts always say even though it really isn’t true. Just about anyone on the planet is capable of reminding you of something about one of your parents, even if it’s only a dimple.’
I tend to agree with most of Nora’s musings, but I don’t agree with this one. I side more with the analyst.
And second quote: ‘I now believe that what my mother meant when she said ‘Everything is copy’ is this: When you slip on a banana peel , people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.’
From ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck’ – Nora Ephron
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‘You’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve ever had to really express yourself.’
-Louise to Thelma, in Thelma and Louise
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‘I will always remember my grandma saying, when I was full of maudlin self pity following some self-inflicted personal crisis, ‘It’s like a cloud, it’ll pass.’
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‘I’ll not be vain or conceited anymore. People will think much less of me but that can’t be helped.’ But the funny thing was that everyone thought much more of Clickety Clack when he became humble and modest. They liked him very much, and often had happy evenings with him in his little toadstool cottage.’
Clickety Clack from Round The Clock Stories – Enid Blyton
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‘It looks like the most passive activity known to man; people who give ‘reading’ as their hobby qualify themselves as automatic wallflowers. Yet reading has rocked more worlds, turned more heads, changed more lives than sex, drugs and Nintendo put together.’
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‘Don’t burn your bridges. Flame-throw your bridges. Absolutely completely destroy them. Because then, the only way forwards is to go for your dreams.’
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‘With their capacity for aggresssion strait-jacketed within a too narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self sacrificing (and naive and exploitable) cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and appropiately self protective anger necessary to protect themselves.’
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‘Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using.’
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‘Too many tweets make a twat.’
