"It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards."

-- Lin Yutang

#Men Quotes #Judging Quotes #Dirt Quotes

“I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.”
“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.”
“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31
“I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?”
“Since God is infinite he should be infinitely interesting as well.”
“Itâ€™s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.”
“Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.”

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