“Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?”
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 7
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.”
Source: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
I get kind of cheesed off with it, but at least they remember. The thing that pisses me off is that that's not what I'm about. If that's what you think Ozzy Osbourne's about, then you're way off.
Launch.com, October 10, 1998
“Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, , p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
Yogiisms
Variant: Thank you for making this day necessary.
“Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years.”
Upon seeing a map of Europe in January 1806 after hearing of the Battle of Austerlitz. Quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt https://archive.org/stream/lifeofwilliampit03stan/lifeofwilliampit03stan_djvu.txt. See also the Yale Book of Quotations.
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Statement in Calgary, Alberta, a region where the Liberals have long struggled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation to gain electoral foothold, on the province's Heritage Day holiday, August 3, 2015. As quoted in Macleans https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/exorcising-the-ghost-of-trudeau-past/ discussing the subject of the lingering influence of the Trudeau name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program in Western Canada.