"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

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Robert Staughton Lynd

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Joy Quotes

“No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have.”
“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
“I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.”
“By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.”
“I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.”
“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Source : Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House
“Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'”
“Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.”

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