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When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.
This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

To cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.

Things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.