"Every burned book enlightens the world."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Book Quotes #World Quotes #Censorship Quotes

“Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.”
“I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.”
“All the ladies can feel sexy and have fun in my clothing and that makes me feel like I am offering something truly unique to the people who have been gracious enough to show me such love and support over the years.”
“I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.”
“That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.”
“I've killed 20 people, man. I love all that blood.”
“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”
“If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.”

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