"No man is an island..."

-- Nick Hornby

#Men Quotes #Islands Quotes

“I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.”
“I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.”
“The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.”
“Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.”

Source : "The Liberal Tradition in European Thought". Book by David Sidorsky, p. 73, 1971.
“If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.”
“The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.”
“A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.”
“I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.”

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