Patricia Gaffney Quotes

#1. I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

Patricia Gaffney

#2. Misery alternates with euphoria.

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#3. And Honey, I just want you to know, even though I didn't see it coming, it makes absolutely no difference to your father or to me that you are a thespian.

Patricia Gaffney

#4. All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew.

Patricia Gaffney

#5. Never throw love away, never neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind. Don't take so much for granted.

Patricia Gaffney

#6. I was small enough to mind that Rudy had a good friend other than me.

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#7. What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

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#9. Fear kills. Protecting yourself backfires eventually. And living in fear of pain isn't really living at all.

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#10. Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see ... Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Cole Porter

#11. Imagine me maintaining anybody's equilibrium.

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#12. Skepticism is luxury.

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#13. Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.

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#14. I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I might be dying. And it was being alone' ... 'To me,' she said, 'the scariest thing is oblivion. Being, and then not being.

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#15. I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.

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#16. What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.

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#17. Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!

T.D. Jakes

#18. I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

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#19. My, my, aren't we pushy . . .

Julie James

#20. I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.

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#21. It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

T.H. White

#22. Laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.

Patricia Gaffney

#23. Topics ... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics ... are what men talk about.

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#24. An informed customer is a satisfied one.

Patricia Gaffney