The Frictionary # 871

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8246. Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. (William Golding)

8247. The young always have the same problems - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They now have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. (Quentin Crisp)

8248. Happiness cannot exist without partial amnesia. (Philippe Bouvard)

8249. Seeking a moment/ I draw the breath from my soul/ you count syllables. (Christopher Moore)

8250. Indifference gives a false air of superiority. (Joseph 

8251. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. (Alfred North Whitehead)

8252. The first part of life is spent desiring the second; the second regretting the first. (Alphonse Karr)

8253. Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. (Milan Kundera)

8254. On which day did God make all the fossils? (?)

8255. Wedding gifts: popular form of familial terrorism. (Pierre Bordage)

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