"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."

-- Gottfried Leibniz

#Memories Quotes #Men Quotes #Practice Quotes

“My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.”

Source : W. Davies King, Wallace Shawn (1997). “Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn”, p.23, Temple University Press
“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”
“The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end”
“I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
“There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan
“Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.”
“The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.”
“Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.”

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