"Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Art Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.”
“I love being a carbon molecule.”
“Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.”
“â€‹Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.”
“I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.”

Source : Source: www.maroonweekly.com
“Surfing is my religion, if I have one.”

Source : "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.
“My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.”

Source : "The Story of Man: From the First Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond". Book by Carleton S. Coon, 1954.

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