"You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you know. It just comes out once in a while in the pop culture."

-- Paul Laffoley

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Devil Quotes

“You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.”
“Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.”
“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.”

Source : The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)
“Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.”
“Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!”
“It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.”

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