The Frictionary # 1032

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9856. To understand is not to forgive. It is simply better than the alternative, which is not to understand. (Alec Nove)

9857. Strange that we give the most beautiful dogs to the blind, we should give them the ugliest. (Michelle Desrochers)

9858.  If God had meant to everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars. (Fran Lebowitz)

9859. Marriage is a meal that starts with the dessert. Jules Sandeau)

9860. The surest sign of age is loneliness. (Amos Bronson Alcott) 

9861. Only one who is aware of his cage can get out. (Laetitia Lemoine)

9862. Perhaps God is the name we give to wonders beyond why. (Maria Popova) 

9863. To see the light at the end of the tunnel, you need a tunnel. (Jean-Sébastien Lozeau)

9864. He who does not read is condemned to believe others. (Jorge Luis Borges attr.)

9865. The brain may take advice, but not the heart. (Truman Capote)

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The Frictionary # 1031

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9846. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution. (Oscar Wilde)

9847. Dreams are the literature of sleep. Even the weirdest deal with memories. (Jean Cocteau)

9848. I wish Taylor Swift was in love with a climate scientist. (Katja Herbers)

9849. If you study the anatomy of despair, you will find, someplace, hope. (Réjean Lévesque)

9850. Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. (Fanny Hurst)

9851. Man is a monkey with car keys."Dans une galaxie près de chez vous" (Claude Legault & Pierre-Yves Bernard)

9852. Revenge involves desire. (William Goldman)

9853. Nothingness is the universe without me. (André Suarès)

9854. The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes. (?)

9855. Twitter is a way to expose your subconscious to the world. (Kyle Chayka)

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The Frictionary # 1030

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9836. How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? (François de La Rochefoucauld)

9837. Hope is not a plan, but without it nothing else is a plan, either. (Robert Brault)

9838. My banker told me that in order to cover my deficit I would have to make sacrifices. I waver between a goat and a chicken. (Laetitia Castwa)

9839. Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. (William Beveridge)

9840. We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within. (Rumi)

9841. Never never get involved with someone who wants to change you. (Quentin Crisp)

9842. The enemy of difference is indifference. (Stéphane Laporte)

9843. Tears only ever serve the past. (Suzanne Palmer)

9844. If I erased the mistakes of my past/ I would erase the wisdom of my present. (?)

9845. Tattoos: Regrets written under the skin, it always hurts. (Hugo Dumas)

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The Frictionary # 1029

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9826. It's said that you only get one life. In truth, you only get one birth and one death. How many lives you squeeze in is up to you. (Robert Brault) 

9827. If someone hits you on the left cheek. take karate lessons. (Quino)

9828. The night sky now is both/ a starry spray of mother's milk/  and points of light as bright as your last kiss. (Jim Culleny)

9829. Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable. (Amin Maalouf)

9830. Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. (Francis Bacon)

9831. Intelligence is not what we know but what we do when we don’t know. (Jean Piaget)

9832. A muffin is a bald cupcake. (Jim Gaffigan)

9833. If there is another life after life, I would like someone to explain to me what is the point of dying? (Philippe Geluck)

9834. Never make snow angels in a dog park. ?)

9835. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. (W.E.B. DuBois)* There is a definite possibility that the second might be true.

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