"... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Animal Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”
“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”
“The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.”
“I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.”
“If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.”
“I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?”
“Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.”

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