"The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure."

-- Jacques Necker

#Kings Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.”
“As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.”
“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
“I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.”
“Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.”
“There is a way to bring peace and harmony to yourself even in the most difficult of times.”
“If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?”

Source : "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son". Book by Michael Chabon, September 29, 2009.
“Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...”

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