"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

-- Horace Walpole

#Vices Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Lost Quotes

“The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.”
“I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural literature - it was all things I was trying to do unsuccessfully in my poetry. It really just changed everything. I was introduced to authors like Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel García Márquez, Junot Díaz, and a lot of African American literature, as well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.”
“Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.77, Routledge
“You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.”

Source : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.
“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”
“It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.”

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