"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough."

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Source : Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press

Janwillem van de Wetering

#Greed Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Demon Quotes

“I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.”
“I am no good without you, Ginesse,â€ he said. â€œI spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.”
“The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.”

Source : Gabrielle Roth Roth (2014). “Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom”, p.45, BookBaby
“When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times - tragically he died of leukemia at a very young age. He talked about how we can have an opportunity to live a lifetime in a moment, in a day, in a month, in a year - when you're confronted with the finite reality of your own existence, all these moments become lifetimes.”

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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
“I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.”
“Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so the best policy is to set reasonable goals, given your limitations. Just try to be a little less tribalistic.”

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