"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

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Mark Twain

#Funny Quotes #Life Quotes #Sarcastic Quotes

“Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.”
“In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed.”
“Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls....”
“The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and in his discoveries,-a vivid imagination sketching out new tracts in regions unexplored, for the judgement to select those leading to the recesses of abstract truth.”
“On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.”
“As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.”
“There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.”
“Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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