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If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.


David Sedaris

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DEBASHISH PHILIP STEPHEN if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.
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ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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LEWIS BLACK If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
MAHATMA GANDHI Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH WHORES.
Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no o...
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AMBROSE BIERCE It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. I...
JEROME K. JEROME It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. ....
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VIRCHAND GANDHI I've been looking for the yellow brick road and I can't find it.
JO FROST If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
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KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
DAVID CHALMERS Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
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CHINA MIEVILLE You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.
TOM KITE Sometimes I just thumb through the dictionary. I find words I don't know the meaning of.
DYLAN WILLIAMS who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
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SUSANE COLASANTI And if that’s all he’s looking for then we’ll set fire to his balls.”
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LAURE96 If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
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TOM WOLFE People find love in life; ironically they still keep looking for it all their lives!
AVIJEET DAS Syphilis is back as sex diseases rise,
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AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS My characters always like themselves.
AMY SEDARIS It's all about process to me - as long as it's fun to me, I don't care about the final product.
AMY SEDARIS It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high...
AMY SEDARIS I'm satisfied just thinking of the idea.
AMY SEDARIS I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a first-place person.
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors w...
AMY SEDARIS I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.
AMY SEDARIS It's driving me crazy! It's awful. I saw four last night during the Academy Awards. Four little baby...
AMY SEDARIS I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
AMY SEDARIS