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“The martini is the supreme American gift to world culture.”

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“A joke I used to know said that if you were planning a trip into the deepest wilderness you should pack a bottle of gin and a bottle of vermouth, and never open them unless and until you became hopelessly lost. Then, wherever you were, when you took your two bottles out of your kit bag, someone would come over the horizon and tell you how to make a better martini.”

Book:Selected Columns from Canadian Living

Source: Selected Columns from Canadian Living

“I'd help you bury the body too." The sweetest smiled touched her lips, the meaning behind my words not lost on her. And then she said, "That's good because there's probably going to be one sooner than later." I almost fan the truck off the road. "What?" "My stepmother, I'm thinking about offing her.”

Book:Beautifully Decadent

Source: Beautifully Decadent

“It's too soon. I don't want to push you into something you're going to regret tomorrow. I don't think I could handle that.”

Book:The Hurricane

Source: The Hurricane

“The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say. The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one. I’m certain some will feel threatened by this record. Some few may feel liberated. Most will simply feel that it should not exist. I needed to write it anyway.”

Inspirational Journey Determination

Book:Oathbringer

Source: Oathbringer

“Time may not heal, but it does pass - slowly, quickly, with certainty. For me, its passing has brought relief. It's created distance from my ordeal. It's lessened its agony.”

Book:Coming Home

Source: Coming Home

“The man who can make you laugh can also make you live, for there is no finer feeling," Sol had said to her one morning. "Why's that?" she inquired, amused. "Because laughter is the strongest feeling of all, stronger than love and passion. Laughter is a form of perfection. We never regret it; we always experience it fully. When it's over, we're always satisfied- we want it to go on but we do not ask for more. Even the memory of laughter is pleasant.”

Book:El enigma de la habitación 622

Source: El enigma de la habitación 622

“And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.”

Funny Authority Jiaan

Book:Rise of a Hero

Source: Rise of a Hero

“Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’”

Materialism Untouchables

Book:Atlas

Source: Atlas

“He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus.”

Awkward Untouchables Flatulence

Book:A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“You must abolish your slavery yourselves. Do not depend for its abolition upon god or a superman. Remember that it is not enough that a people are numerically in the majority. They must be always watchful, strong and self-respecting to attain and maintain success.We must shape our course ourselves and by ourselves.”

Atheism Slavery Untouchables Sucess

Author:B.R. Ambedkar