"There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either."

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Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”

Robert Ardrey

#Doe Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Parades Quotes

“And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?”
“[Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so).”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.”
“Sometimes you'll see interviews about an actor who was asked to hit the weight room to develop his body for the character, and you hear them complaining about the egg white omelettes they had to eat and the tortures of hitting the gym twice a day - I find that to be a bit saddening, it's all a part of becoming the character and as an actor, that is your job.”
“I have a sordid past.”
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.”
“Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.”
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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