"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."

-- Baltasar Gracian

#Wise Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.”
“When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.”
“On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.”
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”

Source : William Jones, John Shore (1807). “The Works of Sir William Jones”, p.163
“I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.”
“I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.”
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
“You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.”

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