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1 " It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond. "
― Colin Cotterill , I Shot the Buddha (Dr. Siri Paiboun #11)
2 " Faith should be at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. We’re so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something. "
3 " And love?” asked the Sangharaj. “The ultimate compromise,” said Siri. “It’s so important to have a partner that we cut and shape our tastes and likes and dislikes and go to great lengths to tolerate differences. We do this so we have someone beside us. "
4 " But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly. "
5 " It occurred to him he was drunk as a flock of bridesmaids. "