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Mark Twain quote: "One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't..."
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself Mark Twain
At these repeated signs of decadence in a society which had once been the object of his envy and his highest ambition, Webber's face had begun to take on a look of scorn...Yes, all these people looked at one another with untelling eyes. Their speech was casual, quick, and witty. But they did not say the things they knew. And they knew everything. They had seen everything. They had accepted everything. And they received every new intelligence now with a cynical and amused look in their... Thomas Wolfe
C. S. Lewis quote: "There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere..."
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. C. S. Lewis
Paulo Coelho quote: "Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of..."
Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives. Paulo Coelho
Alexander McQueen quote: "I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to..."
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things. Alexander McQueen
The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Everyone called it the "Flint Urinal." Editorially, the paper had historically been on the wrong side of every major social and political issue of the twentieth century -- "the wrong side" meaning: whatever side the union workers were on, the Urinal took the opposite position. Michael Moore
It isn't Time Or Opportunity that's to determine intimacy ; It's Disposition alone..Seven Years aren't enough for some people to get acquainted with each other ,While Seven days are more than enough for others ! Jane Austen
Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But it's better with you, Constant Reader. Always better with you. Stephen King
There's a lot going on I don't have a clue about, I wrote; I'll try my damnedest to figure it all out, but you've got to undertsand these things take time. I have no idea where I'm headed—all I know for sure is I don't want to get hung up thinking too deeply about things. The world's too precarious a place for that. Start me mulling over ideas and I'll en up forcing people to do things they hate. I couldn't stand that. Haruki Murakami
Henry Ford quote: "Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are..."
Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right. Henry Ford
The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed. Jose Rizal
It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become. Herman Hesse
You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re... Neil Gaiman
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame. Oscar Wilde
No cop was ever born who isn't a sucker for a finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side when he sees the big red light behind him... and then we will start apologizing begging for mercy. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. The thing to dowhen you're running along about... Hunter S. Thompson

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