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Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.