"The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America."

-- Michel Houellebecq

#Country Quotes #Stupid Quotes #America Quotes

“If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.”
“There was a huge movement that led up to [gay marriage legilization], and I played a small role in the great scheme of things. But it was really a privilege to get to do it.”
“Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.”
“I will either find a way, or make one.”
“There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics
“The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.”
“The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.”
“I would imagine that not having any potential could be less difficult than not fulfilling it.”

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