"During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this."

-- Matthew Specktor

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Casualties Quotes

“Letting someone down is not criminal action.”

Source : "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. October 8, 2006.
“I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.”
“Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.”
“Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.”
“That is a noble idea, though I think it far to generous," Jupiter said. "Once a decade should be sufficient." "I would rather be too generous than not in such cases." "As you wish." [One day, Atticus was amazed to discover that when Jupiter said, "As you wish," what he really meant was "I love you."]”
“For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.”
“Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan
“Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.”

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