"There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity."

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Ellen Glasgow

#Stupidity Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.”
“Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.”
“You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.”
“But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.”
“It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.”
“Banality is sometimes striking.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2015). “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil.”
“Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.”

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