"it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way."

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press

Phyllis Bottome

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Way Quotes

“On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.”
“It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.”
“If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.”
“The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1986). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers”
“We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.”
“Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.”
“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”
“There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.”

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