"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."

-- Cyril Connolly

#Life Quotes #Fear Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.”
“If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.”
“When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense.”
“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.20, Canongate Books
“Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.”
“Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.”
“Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?”
“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

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