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“The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half in liquid state and half in gaseous, both of which is probably poisonous.”

Optimism Optimist Pessimist Pessimism Hopelessness Downfall

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“The mark of a poor comedian is not making the other person laugh. The mark of a worse comedian is asking if the person got it.”

Humor Comedy Comedian Sense Of Humor Joke

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“What are you going to do? she asks. Not dwell. Move forward. What are you really going to do? Stare at spoons.”

Relationships Moving Forward Moving On Breakups Ruminating

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“When i get into the best college in America, he is cutting radishes for dinner. I have just found out ten minutes ago. I am elated. He puts down the knife to shake my hand and then goes back to cutting radishes.”

Expectations Parents Accomplishments Fathers

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“Don’t just break it off for the sake of it. Don’t do something drastic just to prove a point.”

Decision Breakup Decision Making

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“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that to determine the precise location of a particle will only speed up the particle. The same goes for a husband: to ask him exactly where he has been all night will only make him squirm and wiggle and dodge the question more. He will only disappear again.”

Infidelity

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“Another theory about hair, not from my mother, but from the best friend. A woman who cuts her hair drastically is set to make some decisions.”

Hair Haircut

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“My mother has a theory about hair. It is that the longer the hair grows, the dumber a person becomes. She warns that too much hair will suck nutrients away from the head and leave it empty.”

Hair Haircut

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“One thing he says: If you could be an emotion, it would be spite. One thing I say: If you could be an animal, it would be a sloth. But I only say that out of spite.”

Relationships Spite Arguments Fights

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“Aluminum used to be more expensive than gold. Napoleon had an aluminum cutlery set that he only used for visiting royalty. The gold set he used everyday.”

Aluminum Napoleon

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“We go to three parks. We walk nonstop or else she cries. The baby likes moving, especially moving at high speeds, so we go on swings. She opens one eye and looks at me with profound suspicion. What is this contraption? she asks silently, a tiny cyclops in my hands. This is a simple harmonic oscillator, I say, a pendulum; this is periodic motion. Wheeeee is the sound I think her temporal lobe wants to make" (p125)”

Science Humor

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“At our next session, the shrink calls this metaphor psychological warfare. You must rise above it, she says. They're just words being said many miles away. That phrase about sticks and stones and bones. But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant.”

Hurt Words Metaphors Psychiatrists

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