The Frictionary # 920

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8736. A great book is the world's most effective mode of transportation. (Mardy Grothe)

8737. If monkeys knew how to get bored, they could become men. (Johann von Goethe)

8738. We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

8739. Laws can be violated without them screaming. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)

8740. Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. (Peace Pilgrim)

8741. They lie to us. We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying, but they keep lying anyway. We keep pretending to believe them. (Elena Gorokhova - often attributed to Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

8742. Pets are amazing. Did you know a cat can ignore up to 140 commands? (Jose Arroyo)

8743. I have a great future ahead of me. But I'll have it at my back every time I turn around. (Pierre Dac)

8744. Fruits have belly buttons from where they were plucked. (Shower Thoughts Guy)

8745. But poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. (Adrienne Rich)

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The Frictionary # 919

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8726. Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. (Flannery O'Connor)

8727. Between a scientist and a poet, the difference is the same as between a botanical garden and a forest. (Victor Hugo)

8728. What poetry does - is slow down the spinning world and dilate the pupil of attention so that the infinite becomes comprehensible. (Maria Popova)

8729. Coincidences prove that we are on the right path. (Simon VanBooy)

8730. Love memories are the heart's pension. (Charles Chincholle)

8731. Death is nature's warning to slow down. (L.J. Peter)

8732. Men have their hearts in their sex, women have their sex in their hearts. (Malcolm de Chazal)

8733. Everyone loves the Fall season, except the leaves. (Jim Gaffigan)

8734. Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions. (?)

8735. When love is silent, love is dead. (Hélène Ouvrard)

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The Frictionary # 918

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8716. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

8717. Anonymous letters have a great advantage: we don't have to answer them. (Alexandre Dumas son)

8718. Spider/ trying to repair/ a broken window. (Coyote Sings)

8719. For my funeral, I only want what is strictly necessary, namely me. (Georges Clémenceau)

8720. God never calls on the guy with his hand raised. (David Steinberg)

8721. Police see their god in their batons, map stains and welts on/ the continent/ of bodies. To beat a body attempts to own it. And when the body cannot be owned, it must be extinguished. (Monica Teresa Ortiz)

8722. Before the reader frees them, the words stay prisoners of the books. (Josette Hersent)

8723. I played a great horse yesterday. It took seven horses to beat him. (Henny Youngman)

8724. Being popular on Facebook is like being rich at Monopoly. (?)

8725. Comparison is the thief of joy. (Theodore Roosevelt)

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The Frictionary # 917

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8706. When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble)

8707. An optimist is a man who sows two acorns and buys a hammock. (Jean de Lattre de Tassigny)

8708. Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard. (Jeremy Goldberg)

8709. It is better to suffer the absence than the presence. (Frédéric Dard)

8710. Today was tomorrow yesterday, so don't inhale. (Mel Blanc)

8711. Hope is a skepticism. It is to doubt instant misfortune. (Paul Valéry)

8712. I've always had trouble with commitment. At Christmas time, I only jingle half the way. (Brian Kiley)

8713. Halloween: celebration where the visitors don't come in the house. What a great invention! (Stéphane Laporte)

8714. What woman wants, God sells it. (?)

8715. Eventually/ loneliness/ stops sleeping/ with you too. (Coyote Sings)

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