"I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor."

-- Sterling W Sill

#Judging Quotes #Looks Quotes #Rich Quotes

“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage
“The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.”
“Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.”
“Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isnâ€™t conscious; itâ€™s Pavlovian. (13)”
“If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!”
“One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.”
“Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.”
“I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.”

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