"I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls."

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Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.11

Charles Stuart Calverley

#Home Quotes #Soul Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.”
“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.”
“Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.”
“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”

Source : John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press
“Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.”
“Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.363, Canongate Books
“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
“But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.”

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