"A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

#Mean Quotes #Evil Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.”
“I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.”
“Art is nothing but humanized science.”

Source : "Culture and the Crowd". Book by Deric Regin (p. 86), 1968.
“The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.”
“I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.”
“It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, â€œListen to me.”

Source : "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”

Source : Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage
“When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.”

Source : "Why can't we celebrate women's sport without relating it to men's" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2007.

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