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“Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?”
― Molloy
― Molloy
“When I consider life, 't is all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit,
Trust on and think to-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day.”
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Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit,
Trust on and think to-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day.”
―
“People are policy! Without the best people in place, the best ideas don’t matter. —DR. ED FEULNER”
― Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life
― Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life
“I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know.”
― Intimacies
― Intimacies
“[I]f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention only a few of the things there are you do not get done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
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