"What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion."

-- Julian Barnes

#Self Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.”

Source : "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.
“Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!”
“I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.”
“The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.”
“Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.”
“I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.”
“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”
“Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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