"It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right."

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Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.90, Seven Stories Press

Mark Vonnegut

#Memories Quotes #Regret Quotes #Crazy Quotes

“These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.”
“Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor”
“Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?”
“If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.”
“I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.”
“From theÂ Â 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are beingÂ Â indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to theÂ Â left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers areÂ Â scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be theÂ Â destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,Â Â thrills, and self-indulgence.”
“Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.”
“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”

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