“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause. In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause to care about.” Muhammad Ali
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!”
― Flappers and Philosophers
― Flappers and Philosophers
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.”
― Hector and the Search for Happiness
― Hector and the Search for Happiness
“I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.”
― Flappers and Philosophers
― Flappers and Philosophers
“Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
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