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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks. ↗

— Emo Philips

#children #down #firing #go #i

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas. ↗

— Emo Philips

#first #get #had #hot #i

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#close #law #living #nothing #opinion

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#earth #escaping #i #longer #singing

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#give #happiness #hate #life #look

I've got an opinion on everything. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#got #i #opinion

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#care #change #controversial #facets #her

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#changed #fans #get #how #i

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #happen #happening #horrible #horrible things

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother