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Saturday, January 21, 2006

My Week in Quotations

"Did you take an awkward pill?" - CJ on West Wing, 14 January 2006

"I still have to learn how to get a handle on the stress side of it, trying to find a happy medium between caring too much and too little." - Coal train engineer Eric Renstrom, in The New Yorker, 10 October 2005

"Puis, doucement, lentement, il mangea la carotte." - Emile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris, 1874.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

awkwardness, stress,
and what was the third one (not knowing French)?

Rini said...

What resonated with me in the second quote was more the balance between caring too much and too little.

And the third: "Then, gently, slowly, he ate the carrot."