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“You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.”

Truth Kids Teach Propaganda

Book:The Sky Beneath My Feet

Source: The Sky Beneath My Feet

“Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean.”

Men Boys Fashion Clothing Faux Pax

Book:Hollywood Nobody

Source: Hollywood Nobody

“I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?”

Christian Food Cheese

Book:Hollywood Nobody

Source: Hollywood Nobody

“Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.”

Character Beauty Media Television Models

Book:The Sky Beneath My Feet

Source: The Sky Beneath My Feet

“I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.”

Author:Lisa Samson

“I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.”

Poverty Baltimore

Book:The Sky Beneath My Feet

Source: The Sky Beneath My Feet

“The problem with collecting other people's junk is you just don't know what to do with it when you don't want it anymore. You feel bad about throwing it to the curb. It's too much trouble to sell. So you keep it around, knowing if you can't redeem it, exactly, you've at least rescued it. Somewhat.”

Collecting Hoarding Thrifting

Book:A Thing of Beauty

Source: A Thing of Beauty

“If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.”

Movies Cottage Spinster Merchant Ivory

Book:The Sky Beneath My Feet

Source: The Sky Beneath My Feet