"Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt."

-- John Godfrey Saxe

#Degenerates Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Pity Quotes

“If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.”
“But if I donâ€™t think about love, I will be nothing.”
“Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.”
“I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.”
“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”
“I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything that lives is holy and somehow integrated; and on cloudy days I suspect that these extraordinary phenomena, and the hundreds of tiny, modest versions no one hears about, are an ocean, an earth, a Creator, something shaking us by the collar, demanding our attention, our fear, our vigilance, our respect, our help.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.36, Penguin UK
“The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.”
“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, youâ€™re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But itâ€™s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. Iâ€™m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”

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