"Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity."

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Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

Jean Toomer

#Running Quotes #Men Quotes #Wish Quotes

“No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.”
“I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.”

Source : "A revealing sit-down with Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 9, 2003.
“I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.”
“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”
“Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener”
“Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.”
“Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.”
“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”

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