"The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -- that without intelligence we should be brutes -- but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world."

-- George Henry Lewes

#Character Quotes #Eye Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.”
“does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?”
“For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.”

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“I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.”
“comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.”
“Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.”

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“There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.”
“The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.”

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