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"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."
"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."
"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"
"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
"A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted."
"Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss."
"If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving."
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"The male tax?'Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab."
"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."
"I got it! I got it! Heeb declared triumphantly. Evan stopped in the middle of his kitchenette to hear Heeb's idea. 'Sex in the Title.'Yeah, that's what you've been saying I need.'No, that's the title: 'Sex in the Title.''You want me to call my novel 'Sex in the Title?''Yeah. Isn't it great?"
"Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity."
"At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?"
"What's SQ? asked Evan.'Sexual Quotient.'What's that?'Basically, it's your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ.'I've never heard that term before.'That's because I made it up.'That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh?"
"You have to take this with you too, she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. 'My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you're leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her."
"And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as 'penilosophy."
"So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition."
"You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world " your test scores and grades have always been among the highest of your peers. But it's clear now that you cannot reach your full potential in Syria."
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