"The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close."

-- Joel Madden

#Being Real Quotes #Worst Quotes

“I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.”
“Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”

Source : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
“Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.”
“I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.”
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.
“I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.”
“Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.”
“What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.”

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