"The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?"

-- Eugene Ionesco

#Wall Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.”
“Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.”
“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”

Source : "A Raisin in the Sun". Play by Lorraine Hansberry, 1959.
“A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.”
“A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.”
“So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.”
“If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.”
“I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.”

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