I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts. . Wallace Stegner
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  2. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin

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  5. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. - Stefan Molyneux

More Quotes By Wallace Stegner
  1. Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

  2. The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people...

  3. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  4. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  5. Wisdom.. .is knowing what you have to accept.

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