"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."

-- Anita Brookner

#Jesus Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“People fail forward to success.”
“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”
“We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.”

Source : Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.294, Open Road Media
“To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.”
“My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.”
“Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.”
“From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

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