"In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire."

-- Louis Kronenberger

#Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.”
“You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with the whole. This is what should be asked for, not for all other things that people ask for. Isn't it? That's the truth. You have to achieve it, to be in your collective consciousness.”
“If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination”
“Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.”
“To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.”

Source : Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”
“Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 27, 2013
“Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?”
“He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.”

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