1. “If you look good enough, nobody cares if you’re really unpleasant.” — Mindy Kaling

    “If you look good enough, nobody cares if you’re really unpleasant.”

    — Mindy Kaling

  2. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” — Roald Dahl

    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”

    — Roald Dahl

  3. “How we need another soul to cling to.” — Sylvia Plath

    “How we need another soul to cling to.”

    — Sylvia Plath

  4. “I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to regain control.” — David Foster Wallace

    “I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to regain control.”

    — David Foster Wallace

  5. “I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while, and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time.” — Ernest Hemingway

    “I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while, and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time.”

    — Ernest Hemingway

  6. “For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain their two minds lay open to each other. And it wasn’t as if he rode into hers like a conqueror, armed to the eyebrows and seeing nothing but a gay silken flutter—nor did she enter his like a queen walking on soft petals. No, they were eager, serious travelers, absorbed in understanding what was to be seen and discovering what was hidden—making the most of this extraordinary absolute chance which made it possible for him to be utterly truthful to her and for her to be utterly sincere with him.” — Katherine Mansfield

    “For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain their two minds lay open to each other. And it wasn’t as if he rode into hers like a conqueror, armed to the eyebrows and seeing nothing but a gay silken flutter—nor did she enter his like a queen walking on soft petals. No, they were eager, serious travelers, absorbed in understanding what was to be seen and discovering what was hidden—making the most of this extraordinary absolute chance which made it possible for him to be utterly truthful to her and for her to be utterly sincere with him.”

    — Katherine Mansfield

  7. “They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”  — Emily Dickinson

    “They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight;

    a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.” 

    — Emily Dickinson

  8. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”  — Robert Frost

    “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” 

    — Robert Frost

  9. “I didn’t expect her to counter my plan with nakedness.” —  Pete Abrams

    “I didn’t expect her to counter my plan with nakedness.”

    —  Pete Abrams

  10. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” — Roald Dahl

    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”

    — Roald Dahl

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Combining disparate sources to educate, elucidate, and entertain. Contact: lateralsymmetry@ gmail.com

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