"This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing."

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Gertrude Stein

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I feel money is power in certain senses. A lot of women out there are just givin' it away. And then there are the women that're selling their bodies. But they chose to do that. But this is how they make their money. And I don't see anything wrong with that.”
“It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”
“But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.”
“"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”

Source : "Beyond Apollo". Book by Barry Malzberg, 1972.
“The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.”
“Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.”

Source : "Fictional character: Burton Mercer". "The Blues Brothers", www.imdb.com. 1980.
“Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.”
“Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?”

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