Brilliant Quotations

“Be careful what you swallow. Chew!”

–Gwendolyn Brooks

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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

– Peter Clemenza

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Great ad-lib at the end there by actor Castellano. :smiley:

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Are bon mots allowed?

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“Don’t mop under the psycho.”

— Crow T. Robot

A funny line, to be sure, but I have also found it to be very good advice on more than one occasion. And on such occasions it is also good to laugh.

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

-James Baldwin

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Mais oui, mon cher!

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We console ourselves with the flesh
for all the iniquities in the world.

– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

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Nice one.

And I’m reminded of her also writing:

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.

Tuns out she credited the Talmud in the same breath, and that many others had also said as much:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/09/as-we-are/

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Yes. The promise of endings there.

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It’s just peer pressure. From dead people.

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Well put, my very dear.

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Hunger is the best sauce in all the world.

– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

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Sartre strikes again:

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(I hope that’s what the Arabic actually says.)

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Google translate says “tasted” rather than “endured”, but seems accurate enough.

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