"Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Next Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Demon Quotes

“I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.”
“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.”
“Don't let people with no life ruin yours.”
“Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.”
“"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."”
“Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.”
“The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”
“I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado.”

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