The Frictionary # 1006

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9596. It is today that the present is éternal. (Paul Éluard)

9597. Science is the record of dead religions. (Oscar Wilde)

9598. The two great secrets of happiness: pleasure and forgetfulness. (Alfred de Musset)

9599. There is no more powerful mind-altering substance than a book. (Jules Evans)

9600. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

9601. A cat is more like a teenager. He listens when he feels like it and ignores us the rest of the time. (Stéphane Laporte)

9602. She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. (Groucho Marx)

9603. Dreams, those territories where we are brought without being consulted. (Luis Sepúlveda)

9604. Not old,/ Correction, aged./ Passé? I am but vintage. (Sandra Cisneros)

9605. The stars in their myriad constellations: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. (Robert Brault)

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The Frictionary # 1005

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9586. Time is nothing but an immeasurable immobility along which we pass. (Gilbert Larocque)

9587. Who you are is not your fault, but it is your responsibility, (Cory Muscara)

9588. Dig the well before you are thirsty. (Chinese proverb)

9589. Mediocrity is a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. (Tom Robbins)

9590. Happiness is not a take-out - it can't be preserved - it has to be consumed on the spot. (Abel Castel)

9591. Cynics (...) - are just brokenhearted optimists. (Maria Popova)

9592. I am not racist, but we must face the facts: children are not people like us. (Pierre Desproges)

9593. A poem should not mean/ But be. (Archibald McLeish)

9594. There are only two states for squirrels: being anxious and being dead. (Micheline Marchildon)

9595. Matter delights in music, and became Bach. (Ronald Johnson)

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The Frictionary # 1004

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9576. Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them. (Confucius)

9577. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. (Rory Sutherland)

9578. You can always change branch without changing tree. (Guy Maufette)

9579. There is nothing that makes you aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers)

9580. In politics, truth has to wait until someone needs it. (Björnstjerne Bjòrnson) 

9581. Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped. (Kim Newman)

9582. [So many mass shootings in the US] Americans should not elect Trump but George R.R. Martin. (LANDESYves)

9583. I am, therefore I'll think. (Ayn Rand)

9584. When words make love sentences are born. (Jim Culleny)

9585. The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. (Thomas Merton)

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The Frictionary # 1003

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9566. The devil is the arrogance of the mind, faith without a smile, truth never touched by doubt. (Umberto Eco)

9567. - "And what would humans be without love?"                                                    - "RARE." said Death. (Terry Pratchett)

9568. Refusing to love for fear of suffering is like refusing to live for fear of dying. (?)

9569. How is it that the first piece of luggage in the airport carousel never belongs to anyone? (George Roberts)

9570. Promises only bind those who receive them. (François Chirac)

9571. Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste money can buy. (Miles Kington)

9572. Justice listens at beauty's doorstep. (Aimé Césaire)

9573. If perceptions make life possible, sensations make it worth living. (Nick Romeo)

9574. Man is a walking tree. (Julos Beaucarne)

9575. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. (Ambrose Bierce)

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The Frictionary # 1002

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9556. Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. (Jorge Luis Borges)

9557. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. (Edward R. Murrow)

9558. Melatonin is a natural soporific...like the theater. (Mehdi Bousaidan)

9559. Who was the woman who, 13,787 ± 0.020 billion years ago/ birthed the universe from a bang? (Jim Culleny)

9560. Free will is God's alibi. (Jean Cocteau)

9561. Home is where people notice when you're not around. (Aleksandar Hemon)

9562. Culture is mostly identitarian and this allows it to be political. (Réjean Lévesque)

9563. I can't have children. Because I have white couches. (Carrie Snow)

9564. The phrase "don't take this the wrong way" has 0% success rate. (?)

9565. You have to be noticed to be ignored. (Charles McCarry)

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