"Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Debt Quotes #Creditors Quotes #Superstitious Quotes

“The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifer's.”
“President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.”
“Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.”
“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”
“I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.”
“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.169, 谷月社
“To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.”
“I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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