"I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself."

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Source : Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

Hermann Hesse

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“You're dumb, but don't give in.”
“It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.”
“I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.”
“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you.”

Source : "Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism" by Steve Lohr, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.
“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”

Source : Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.
“The simplest things give me ideas.”
“Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.”

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