"Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence."

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Source : John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett

John Wyndham

#Treasure Quotes #Existence Quotes

“Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.”
“The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that look very little like sex but a lot like cruelty.Â The only solution to this is a movement that is fierce in its critique of sexual exploitation and steadfast in its determination to fight for what is rightfully ours.”

Source : "Should We Worry Whether Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality?". Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, www.alternet.org. September 10, 2010.
“The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.”
“It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.”
“The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.”
“It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.”
“Without forgiveness, there is no future.”

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