"Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."

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Wallace Stevens

#Mirrors Quotes #Crowds Quotes #Foolish Quotes

“I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.”
“First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.”
“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.331, Vintage
“Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.”
“Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.”

Source : "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.
“I still got my Ferrari.”
“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”

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