"It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one."

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Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.138, Spiegel & Grau

Mat Johnson

#Freak Quotes #Moments Quotes #Great Moments Quotes

“I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.”
“It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.”

Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.219
“Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu”
“Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.”
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.”
“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”
“Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.”
“I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.”

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