"It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation."

-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Men Quotes #Birth Quotes #Pity Quotes

“The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful”
“A great mind must be androgynous.”

Source : Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96
“Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.”
“Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias”
“With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.”

Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.
“It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.”
“For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants”

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