"We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil."

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Source : Jack Gilbert, “A Brief For The Defense”

Jack Gilbert

#Risk Quotes #Devil Quotes #World Quotes

“I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.”
“Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”
“The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.”

Source : Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.
“When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience - I created this expression between sadness and dissatisfaction to get people to make me feel better, to get me presents. I created this face based on movies without even understanding it. I felt attracted to faces and body language. I remember I was always fascinated with why some people are considered beautiful and some are not. Everybody's got two eyes and one nose, but it's the small details. It is why we fall in love or why we want to kill somebody we haven't even spoken to.”
“hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot”
“Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.”
“Happiness is like coke â€” something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”

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