Jack D.

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book." Ernest Hemingway "There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk." Jean-Paul Sartre Cat has a bruise on her elbow. "You should put some arnica on it," I say. "Why, what would that do?" she asks. "It helps when you've got bruising." "I thought it was for swelling." "That's what bruises are." "Oh." “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Margaret Mitchell “Five years ago I had a plan to straighten myself out. Here I am, thousands of dollars later with one more insight. That you grow older faster staying in the same place.” J.P. Donleavy "I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for." Norman Mailer "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." Ernest Hemingway

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