"With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state."

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Source : Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

Wyndham Lewis

#Family Quotes #Baby Quotes #Sweet Quotes

“O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.”

Source : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.222
“It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.”
“I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.”
“Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy”
“The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.”
“In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.”
“The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.”

Source : "In gratitude for all the gifts" by Seamus Heaney, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2004.
“I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.”

Source : John D MacDonald (1985). “Deep Blue Goodbye”, Fawcett

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