Ashleigh Brilliant

A writer and cartoonist.

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26 quotations — 22 Funny, 4 Serious.


  1. All I want is a little more than I will ever get.
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  2. All I want is a warm bed, and a kind word, and unlimited power.
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  3. By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of you improving.
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  4. Everything takes longer than you expect.
    Even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.
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  5. I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.
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  6. I can only do one thing at a time.
    But I can avoid doing many things, simultaneously.
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  7. I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.
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  8. I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
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  9. If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
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  10. If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.
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  11. I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.
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  12. Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
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  13. It's not easy taking my problems one at a time, when they refuse to get in line.
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  14. Life may have no meaning.
    Or, even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
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  15. My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about.
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  16. My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.
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  17. My opinions may have changed.
    But not the fact that I am right.
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  18. Please don't lie to me.
    Unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
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  19. Please don't tell me there's no need to worry.
    It's the only thing I'm any good at.
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  20. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit “the target”.
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  21. To the Tax Office:
    All is over between us.
    Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.
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  22. Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?
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  23. History may never have all the facts.
    But it always has the last word.
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  24. If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
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  25. Unfortunately, it's possible to be able to do something extremely well, that nobody ever wants done.
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  26. Your reasoning is excellent.
    It's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
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