"It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make."

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Shirley Jackson

#Moving Quotes #House Quotes #Watches Quotes

“People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.”
“One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, 1930.
“When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.”
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.42, Columbia University Press
“Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.”
“All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?”
“Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mÃ©lÃ©tÃ¨ (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press

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