"The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them."

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Source : 1974 A MusingMorley,'France and the French'.

Robert Morley

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #France Quotes

“My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.”
“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I donâ€™t already know, and make me laugh. I donâ€™t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”
“Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.”
“Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his motherâ€™s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Thoughâ€¦it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.”
“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”
“Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.”
“I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.”

Source : Albert Hofmann (1983). “LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science”, J P Tarcher
“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.”

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