“High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
Rita Mae Brown
Born place: in Hanover, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date November 28, 1944
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“Business cards, of course, are not proof of anything. Anyone can go to a print shop and have cards made that say anything they like. The king of Denmark can order business cards that say he sells golf balls. Your dentist can order business cards that say she is your grandmother. In order to escape from the castle of an enemy of mine, I once had cards printed that said I was an admiral in the French navy. Just because something is typed - whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book - this does not mean it is true.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Wide Window
“We say that the most dangerous
criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared
to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart
goes out to them. They accept the essential ideal of man; they
merely seek it wrongly. Thieves respect property. They merely wish
the property to become their property that they may more perfectly
respect it. But philosophers dislike property as property; they
wish to destroy the very idea of personal possession. Bigamists
respect marriage, or they would not go through the highly
ceremonial and even ritualistic formality of bigamy. But
philosophers despise marriage as marriage. Murderers respect human
life; they merely wish to attain a greater fulness of human life in
themselves by the sacrifice of what seems to them to be lesser
lives. But philosophers hate life itself, their own as much as
other people's.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Walter Isaacson, quote from Einstein: His Life and Universe
“What happens when you get scared half to death twice?”
― Jessica Park, quote from Flat-Out Love
“Nan, I’m cursed.”
“Yeah, I know. We all are.” Nan kicked her legs back and forth and grabbed a magazine from Mina’s nightstand. “It’s called being a teenager.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from UnEnchanted
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