"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Purpose Quotes #Literature Quotes #Mould Quotes

“Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.”
“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
“Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us”
“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”
“Space is going to be commonplace.”
“Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.
“Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”
“It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.”

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