"How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media

Hortense Calisher

#Clerks Quotes #Bureaucracy Quotes

“To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.”
“I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”
“I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.”
“Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.”
“Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry Â— chock full of it.”

Source : James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.260
“Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.”

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