Haven Kimmel Quotes

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• I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't…
• My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.
• My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to…
• Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.
• On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and…
• On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading,…
• Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of…
• I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be…
• Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life…
• I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.
• Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard...
• What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my…
• ...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I…
• They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I…
• Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places…
• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and…
• But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

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