"I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement"

-- Robert Jordan

#Stupidity Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Magnitude Quotes

“All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.”

Source : Ken Venturi, Al Barkow (1983). “The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer”, Atheneum Books
“You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.”
“As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of stars into constellations. I don't usually spend time asking whether the stars are random or planned. I make a narrative in the darkness, the area subscribed by an outline of bright points. Sometimes they look like Ursa Minor, and sometimes they just looks like one day the world exploded.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.”
“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.190, Transaction Publishers
“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”
“Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.”

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