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“Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.”
― Kinky Friedman

“Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful”
― Thomas M. Disch

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
― Raymond Chandler

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
― Raymond Chandler

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
― Mary Oliver

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

“I save my panic for small things.”
― Lily Brett, Only in New York