"Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes."

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Source : Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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“Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.”
“There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.”
“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness”
“The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
“Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”
“The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

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