"He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good."

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Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.43, Granta Books

Patrick deWitt

#Thinking Quotes #Lazy Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.”
“We knew they were going to be coming at us. I think they got their first two goals by getting underneath us in the crease. The first two goals really picked them up. Dom (Lamolinara) just stood on his head when we needed him with that doorstop save and the last pass with four seconds left. Defensively we're just jelling and we've just got to keep moving.”
“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”
“As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.”
“You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.”
“True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.”

Source : Paul Pearsall (1988). “Super joy: in love with living”, Doubleday Books
“Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."”
“My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I was destined to go into the bar business like him or go to college and be a lawyer. I was not encouraged, and in a way maybe that made me more hardheadedly committed to being a writer.”

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