"Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshitâ€ (402)."

-- Jonathan Franzen

#Bullshit Quotes

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,â€ Chiron said. â€œAnd perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”
“Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.”
“In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
“Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.”
“If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!”
“There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.”

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