"Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors."

-- Horace Walpole

#Degenerates Quotes #Ancestor Quotes #Posterity Quotes

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

Source : Eric Berne (2011). “Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis”, p.156, Tantor eBooks
“We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”
“Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.”

Source : "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.
“Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.”
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
“Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.”
“I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels”

Source : Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.320, Faber & Faber
“But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.”

Source : Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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