"I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion."

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Glenn Reynolds

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.”
“I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.”

Source : "Actress Tania Raymonde talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'". Interview with oseph Airdo, www.axs.com. January 3, 2013.
“For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.”
“I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.”
“As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.”
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”

Source : Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.707, Faber & Faber
“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.18, Vintage

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