"How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House."

-- M. E. W. Sherwood

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Office Quotes

“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.”
“Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.”
“I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.”
“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”

Source : August Wilson (2006). “Gem of the Ocean”
“Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.”
“No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.50, Open Road Media
“In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.”
“I write [music] as a sow piddles.”

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