"I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel."

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Source : Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.249, eBookIt.com

Elinor Glyn

#Travel Quotes #Unattractive Quotes #Creatures Quotes

“Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”
“D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.”
“There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.”
“My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.”
“It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.”

Source : "Soul to Keep". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com.
“The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.”
“I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.”

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