#Fortune Quotes #Wells Quotes
“How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.”
“My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life”
“All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,†is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.”
“We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.”
“[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.”
“I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.”
“It's really hard to grow with another person.”
“Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.”
Herman Melville Novelist
James Russell Lowell Poet
John Greenleaf Whittier Poet
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
Robert Frost Poet
Walt Whitman Poet
William C. Bryant Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician