"Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage."

-- Andre Maurois

#Anger Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.”
“There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.”
“It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.”

Source : "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
“It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.”
“I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.”
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.”

Source : William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.15, Read Books Ltd
“You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.”
“In love there is no because.”

Source : Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.29, Penguin

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