"When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised"

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Andre Maurois

#Insulting Quotes #May Quotes #Used Quotes

“He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.”
“You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.”
“My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.”
“The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.”
“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.”
“Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.”
“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”

Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber
“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”

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