"Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Intelligent Quotes #Simple Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.”
“I'm not angry at anyone.”
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
“[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.”
“Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.”
“I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.”
“Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.”

Source : "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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