"We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk."

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Source : Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

Frank Wedekind

#Drunk Quotes #Devil Quotes #Fool Quotes

“As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.”
“Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.”
“How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?”
“Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.”

Source : Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”
“If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.”
“In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.”
“Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.”
“Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.”

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