Murphy Johnson > Murphy's Quotes

“Sure I was a piece of furniture - with two legs and a pay check coming - but I looked off at the sunset, anyway.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“On Sundays she got up early in order to have more time to do nothing.”
― Clarice Lispector

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb”
― Stephen King