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"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."
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"The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us."
"Give preference to things of the greatest lasting value."
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"Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus."
"The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs."
"When you rearrange, make it meaningful and significant. Don't rearrange just for the sake of rearranging. It would be as "pointless as rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. In other words, why waste your time on frivolous activities which could be easily undone or do nothing to contribute to the solution of your problem?"
"Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both."
"Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things."
"If it isn't urgent, worry about it later."
"Do not pursue what you cannot keep."
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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
"I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days yore, so that he should be appraised of the many positions in which I am carnal. 'This is sixty-nine,' I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers--two of them--on the action, so that he would not overlook it. 'Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?' he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. 'It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor.' 'What did people do before 1969?' 'Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus."
"She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box of staples. And hope. I think of those things. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape, the hope. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and hop."
"Let's go to bed. Those four words differentiate a marriage from every other kind of relationship. We aren't going to find a way to agree, but let's go to bed. Not because we want to, but because we have to. We hate each other right now, but let's go to bed. It's the only one we have. Let's go to our sides, but the sides of the same bed. Let's retreat into ourselves, but together. How many conversations had ended with those four words? How many fights?"
"She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else."
"Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!"
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