"All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet."

-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Baby Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Differences Quotes

“You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.127, Macmillan
“It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.”
“Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.”
“Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.”
“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”
“The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.”
“[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.”

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