The Frictionary # 1049

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10026. People mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But, really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. (Khaled Hosseini)

10027. Writing is the painting of the voice. (Voltaire)

10028. People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. (Louis de Bernières)

10029. X: Only letter that has the right to vote. (Michel Lauzière)

10030. Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. (Philip R. Breeze)

10031. Only victims are buried./ Never the axe never war. (Stéphane Laporte)

10032. That business about the meek inheriting the earth sounds an awful lot like an Internet scam. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10033. Serenity is the cellulite of the soul. (Pierre Daninos)

10034. The object of golf is to play the least golf. (?)

10035. The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. (Don Marquis)

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The Frictionary # 1048

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10016. The ego is only in the future and the past, it has no present moment, it is always hurrying or dreaming. (Jacob Needleman)

10017. Someone full of courage is courageous. Someone full of love is a lover. Someone full of life is an old person. (Stéphane Laporte)

10018. Perhaps God made cats so that man might have the pleasure of fondling the tiger. (Robertson Davies)

10019. When two spouses are of the same opinion, it is always the woman who has it first. (Paul Morand)

10020. Hoping and praying should never be confused with studying. (Charles M. Schulz)

10021. Justice, revenge in its Sunday best. (Stephen Hecquet)

10022. If God were a woman, most of us would go to hell without even knowing why. (Samuel H. Lowe)

10023. Talking does not cook the rice. (Chinese proverb)

10024. Vegan sausage: Cucumber. (Simon Gouache)

10025. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed are kings. (attributed to Erasmus)

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The Frictionary # 1047

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10006. Your memory is a monster; YOU forget - it doesn't. (John Irving)

10007. Happiness, you get used to it. Misfortune, you don't get used to it. That's the difference. (Michel Audiard)

10008. You know what they fill futons with? Hatred. (Jim Gaffigan)

10009. Offering friendship to one who wants love is like giving bread to one who is dying of thirst. (Spanish proverb)

10010. The past is inevitable. (Delmore Schwartz)

10011. Immaculate Conception: Original artificial insemination. (Réjean Lévesque)

10012. We are what we are either because of our parents or in spite of them, which amounts to the same thing. (William Goldman)

10013. Etymology: the criminal record of words. (Roland Topor)

10014. We give our lives meaning. If you feel like life is meaningless, that's your fault. (?)

10015. The trouble with adults is that they often mistakenly believe they have solved what they managed to silence. (Rosalie Vaillancourt)

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The Frictionary # 1046

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9996. To love is to understand. (Anatole France)

9997. American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do. (Pat Conroy)

9998.  Truth and reality never quite agree. Truth does not win often. (Félix Leclerc)

9999. Situations may be ironic, but only people can be sarcastic (...) sarcasm requires intention. (John Haiman)

10000. Don't commit suicide. It would seem that it's not better on the other side. (Daniel Poliquin)

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10001. The Narcissist's Creed: I am, therefore you're not. (Jim DeKornfeld)

10002. The "patches" don’t take away the need to smoke, but it takes away the urge to kill. (Jean-François Mercier)

10003. Alcohol...Because sometimes truth needs a laxative. (Cherye Davis)

10004. Harry Potter is the only movie where you see men using a broom. (?)

10005. All is temptation to those who fear it. (Jean de La Bruyère)

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