"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."

-- Aeschylus

#Oil Quotes #Opponents Quotes #Vinegar Quotes

“We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.”
“Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.”
“I couldnt change who I am; I couldnt change the kind of player I am.”
“The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.”
“Reading is where the wild things are.”
“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”
“A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.”
“While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!”

Source : John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

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