The Frictionary # 696

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6486. A book is a heart that beats in the chest of another. (Rebecca Solnit)

6487. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. (Bobcat Goldthwaite)

6488. I don't need enemies. I have relatives. (Jean-Jacques Péroni)

6489. Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.(Milton Berle)

6490. It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. (Seneca)

6491. A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. (Barbara Christine Seifert)

6492. Love fears doubt though it is doubt that makes it grow, and it is often certainty that dooms it. (Gustave LeBon)

6493. Life is the train, not the station. (Paulo Coelho)

6494. There are two reasons why we don't trust people. First - we don't know them. Second - we know them. (?)

6495. Each cobble
on the seashore 
contains an infinity of waves.(Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 695

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6476. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. (John Andrew Holmes)

6477. Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. (A.A. Milne)

6478. Money has no smell, but poverty has one. (Paul Léautaud)

6479. B: The letter "I" who got a boob job. (Michel Lauzière)

6480. Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday. (Anthony Hopkins)

6481. Newspapers (...) help you forget the previous day. (Elias Canetti)

6482. I don't have writer's block. I have children. (Benjamin Wallace)

6483. In politics, truth has to wait until someone needs it. (Björnstjern Björnson)

6484. The human body is 80% water, so we are basically just cucumbers with anxiety. (?)

6485. To play is to risk. To risk is to play. (Diane Ackerman)

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The Frictionary # 694

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6466. Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. (Richard Dawkins)* 

* Also attributed to Victor J. Stenger.

6467. Anonymous letter: nameless cowardice. (Jean Delacour)

6468. When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. (Lenore Coffee)

6469. To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. (Demosthenes)

6470. Know thyself, but keep some surprises in reserve. (Jacques Deval)

6471. "Things always get better with time"
but not human beings
they die. (Réjean Lévesque)

6472. Me to my son: You remind me of me.
Son: That's just mean. (Jim Gaffigan)

6473. A poem is like a score for the human voice. (Li-Young Lee)

6474. Nothing haunts us like the things we didn't buy at a yard sale. (?)

6475. Take the time before it takes you. (Paul Carvel)

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The Frictionary # 693

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6456. The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid are full of confidence. (attr. Charles Bukowski)

6457. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (African proverb)

6458. Listening must not be an act of submission, but a freedom in embracing a voice. (Charles Lechesnier)

6459. Why don't the enemies of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just flip them on their backs? (Kent Graham)

6460. The sunrise is a strip-tease between night and day. (Tom Robbins)

6461. We don't own knowledge, we borrow it. The pleasure we find in it is mostly spreading it around. (Réjean Lévesque)

6462. No one flower can symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. (William Safire)

6463. What is the past if not some present that is late. (Pierre Dac)

6464. White lines
on the highway
skidmarks
of angels. (Wendy Jane Agnew)

6465. If you are lonely, dim all lights and put on a horror movie. After a while,
 it won't feel like you're alone anymore. (?)

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The Frictionary # 692

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6446. Change happens in an instant. It happens the moment you decide to change. (Allyson Lewis)

6447. The happiness we want spoils the one we have. (Jacques Deval)

6448. Mostly I use Facebook to remember why I stopped hanging out with people. (Julius Sharpe)

6449. I think that to hope is to wait for something possible. To wish is more like a dream. (Alexandra Deford)

6450. A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. (Hermione Gingold)

6451. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. (Victor Hugo)

6452. Eccentricity: the suburbs. (Réjean Lévesque)

6453. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. (Steven Wright*)
*or Henny Youngman.

6454. Faint city stars
the clock strikes
half past something. (sagestone)

6455. To oppose something is to maintain it. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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