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1. "New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room." ~ Patricia Marx
2. "One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words." ~ Patricia Marx
3. "Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say, 'Yeah, yeah, just tell me: is it good for you or bad for you?' Consequently, I think, I was always afraid to indulge in the time that you need to tell a joke, very nervous about anything that constituted an Act II." ~ Patricia Marx
4. "You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?" ~ Patricia Marx
5. "But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn." ~ Patricia Marx
6. "I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat." ~ Patricia Marx
7. "It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits." ~ Patricia Marx
8. "[the truth in regards to studying abroad] "you know what else is nice about being a foreigner? Whatever you do takes place in a capsule that need not be discovered and opened by someone back home. Nothing really counts--it was the life that falls in the forest. That's how I looked at it. I felt free to...oh, I don't know." ~ Patricia Marx
9. "Dot is lonely. Are you surprised? It's hard to find friends when you're only Dot-sized." ~ Patricia Marx
10. "There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble." ~ Patricia Marx
11. "Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed." ~ Patricia Marx
12. "Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is." ~ Patricia Marx
13. "For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes." ~ Patricia Marx
14. "I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing." ~ Patricia Marx
15. "I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality." ~ Patricia Marx
16. "I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work." ~ Patricia Marx
17. "Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi." ~ Patricia Marx
18. "New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce." ~ Patricia Marx
19. "Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies." ~ Patricia Marx
20. "The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism." ~ Patricia Marx
21. "Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often." ~ Patricia Marx
22. "'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment." ~ Patricia Marx
23. "High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege." ~ Patricia Marx
24. "I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style." ~ Patricia Marx
25. "It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi." ~ Patricia Marx
26. "Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels." ~ Patricia Marx
27. "If only, I thought, I could talk to Eugene just one more time. This was before I came to understand that you cannot make someone fall in love with you But here's what you can do. By arguing and pleading and screaming and crying and throwing plates and phoning a lot and bringing hot food and sending flowers and buying gifts and doing unsolicited favors and remembering a birthday and being nice and declaring your abiding love and trying hard or sometimes merely by being present, you can make someone who was hitherto lukewarm really detest you." ~ Patricia Marx

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God hostage to an unanswered question, something we don't understand, like a healing that doesn't come, and will not obey until he answers. I don't have the right to do that. My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can't get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand. There is something that happens in the heart of a person that just says, ‘God, I want what you want. I want to see your Kingdom come. I want to see your purposes worked out in the earth. I"
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