"Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters."

-- Laurence Overmire

#Real Quotes #World Quotes #Matter Quotes

“When we were kids, we would never open the minibar. A $6 Snickers bar? But the other day I was in a hotel and I was staring at a Snickers bar, and I finally just ate it. Then it was like something in me snapped. I opened all these drinks. I thought: I can do it now. Now I'm all grown-up. I can eat things from the minibar.”
“Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.”

Source : Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.117, Westminster John Knox Press
“The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.”
“As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.”
“A great speech is literature.”
“I like songs that go to different places and then come back.”
“Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.”
“To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.”

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