"No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific."

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Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

J. Maarten Troost

#World Quotes #Claims Quotes #Small World Quotes

“I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.”
“If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes â€˜your arrangementâ€™”
“Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.”
“Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1804). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.458
“I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.”
“The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.”
“Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.”
“My friend Taylor Swiftâ€™s new album, 1989.”

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