"Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale."

-- Mordecai Richler

#Paris Quotes #Hashish Quotes #Institutions Quotes

“Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.”
“In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).”
“The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones.”

Source : "The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment" by Bevis Longstreth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”
“A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.”
“Monumental is not a matter of size.”
“When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience - I created this expression between sadness and dissatisfaction to get people to make me feel better, to get me presents. I created this face based on movies without even understanding it. I felt attracted to faces and body language. I remember I was always fascinated with why some people are considered beautiful and some are not. Everybody's got two eyes and one nose, but it's the small details. It is why we fall in love or why we want to kill somebody we haven't even spoken to.”

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