"Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Confused Quotes #Taste Quotes #Inappropriate Quotes

“I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?”
“For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.”

Source : "Black conservatives: Gun control has ‘racist’ roots" by Nicholas Ballasy, dailycaller.com. February 22, 2013.
“No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.”
“Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.”

Source : Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.75, Hachette UK
“I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.”
“Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.”
“The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.”

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