"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."

-- Lion Feuchtwanger

#Sublime Quotes #Steps Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.”
“I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.”
“You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly canâ€™t expect years and years of it.”
“He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.”
“I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.”
“I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.”
“I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.”

Source : Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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