"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."

-- Stephen Vizinczey

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.”
“I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 8, 2004.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”

Source : Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”

Source : Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre”, p.81, New Directions Publishing
“She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.”
“It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.”
“Dare to think for yourself.”
“When he nodded, the physician disappeared into thin air, and then a moment later, Payne felt a warm palm encompass hers. It was Vishous's un-gloved hand against her own and the connection between them eased her in ways she couldn't name. Verily, she had lost her mother . . . but if she lived through this, she still had family. On this side.”

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