"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right."
-Quentin Crisp
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"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
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"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
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"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
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"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
-Patrick Rothfuss
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"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
-Walt Whitman
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"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
-Nora Ephron
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"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."
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"Keep cool anger is not an argument."
-Daniel Webster
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
-Thomas Jefferson
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