"Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom."

-- Wojciech Kurtyka

#Mean Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“We have a show tonight. I've never missed a show. Not even the time I had that virus they kept saying only raccoons get.”
“I know nothing at all about music.”
“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”
“My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”
“Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.”

Source : Enid Blyton (2013). “The Mystery of the Hidden House”, p.68, Egmont UK
“What people value in their booksâ€”and thus what they count as literatureâ€”really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
“I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.”
“An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is,”

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