"I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation."

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Samuel Beckett

#Tone Quotes #Helping Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.”
“In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.”

Source : Speech in the Bavarian regional parliament on April 25, 1928. "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.
“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”
“If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?”
“historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.”
“The mind's only perfect vassal.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.148
“When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."”
“There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”

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