"Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back."

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Source : "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

Chris Avellone

#Monk Quotes #Reason Quotes

“This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.”
“Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster
“The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect”
“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.”
“War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.”
“It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 4, 2013
“I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.”

Source : "Gustave Courbet".

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