"But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness."

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Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Sep 30, 2015

Hubert Selby, Jr.

#Believe Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.”
“China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going to work for all countries in the same way. Culture always plays a role and you can't necessarily take what worked in one market and automatically make it work somewhere else.”
“Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of ***** and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America...”
“I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.”
“It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.”
“What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?”

Source : Orville Dewey (1838). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.97
“After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”

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