"A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Men Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Fool Quotes

“Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!”
“The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.”
“Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.”
“Everybody should customize their names.”

Source : Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.153, Vintage
“Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is.”
“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.”
“Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”
“If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.”

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