"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."

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H. L. Mencken

#Freedom Quotes #Truth Quotes #Philosophy Quotes

“You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.”
“Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”
“Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”
“I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.”
“Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.”

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