"I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do."

-- Daniel Handler

#Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.”
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.”
“Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.”
“Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.”
“How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?”
“All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning”

Source : Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster
“Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Spies”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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