"Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself."

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Source : "In the Belly of the Beast". Book by Jack Abbott, 1981.

Jack Abbott

#Men Quotes #Important Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”
“The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.”
“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”
“In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.”
“I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity”
“The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”

Source : "How Camera Drones are Changing Our World (and us)" by Claudine Chicheportiche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.
“All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. Thatâ€™s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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