"The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow."

-- Samuel Beckett

#Reality Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Effort Quotes

“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.”
“The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.”
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”
“Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”
“Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.”
“There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.”

Source : "Jimmie Walker never watched a single episode of 'Good Times'" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. June 26, 2012.
“People never cease to amaze me.”

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