"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Single Quotes #Travel Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.”
“The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.”
“You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.”
“I don't like inherited wealth.”
“E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The ***** frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.”

Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25
“Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.”

Source : "Sarah Waters's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.
“When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.”
“'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.”

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