"It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immovable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it!"

-- Laurence Sterne

#Men Quotes #Light Quotes #Air Quotes

“Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.”
“I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.”
“'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.”
“Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!”
“Anger is short-lived madness.”
“I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.”
“Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?”
“The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.”

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