"The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons."

-- Randall Jarrell

#Done Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Causes Quotes

“Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.”
“This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?”
“Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie.”

Source : Yossi Shain (2010). “The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State”, p.18, University of Michigan Press
“You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I never practice; I always play.”

Source : Time magazine, December 1, 1952.
“I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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