"She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy."

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Source : Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.165, Soho Press

Alex Shakar

#Stupidity Quotes #Deep Thought Quotes #Empty Quotes

“You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.”
“I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.”
“The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.”
“The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.”
“Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked 'classified' in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”

Source : Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.
“Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.”

Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.33, Vintage
“I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.”
“All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid”

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