"The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Thoughtful Quotes #Men Quotes #Joy Quotes

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”
“When I was outed, it was like, That's done.”
“When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.”
“People who love science fiction really do love sex.”

Source : "Bright Ideas". Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.
“Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.”
“You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Let your life be guided by greatness”
“There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.”

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