"The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness."

-- Elias Canetti

#Darkness Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Crime Quotes

“If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.”
“God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.”
“It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.”
“Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.”
“Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.”
“I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.”
“At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.”
“If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.”

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