"What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good for the world, but at the same time the reality is that you have to eat other people to end up on top."

-- Owen Pallett

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.”
“There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.”
“I work twice as hard as everybody else.”
“Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.”
“Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.”

Source : Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.89, Hachette UK
“A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.”
“Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple.”
“Life is to blame for everything.”

Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.45, Archipelago

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