"Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal."

-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography Quotes #People Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.”
“Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.”
“Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.”
“No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.”
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Oct 18, 2016
“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers
“But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.”
“The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.”

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