"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?"

-- Alan Paton

#Heart Quotes #Eye Quotes #Gun Quotes

“I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.”
“I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.”
“When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.”
“It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.”
“Infinity has got to become mine so that I can know which way to turn, so that I can know in what direction something like morning is breaking.”
“Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.”
“Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.”

Source : Charles Du Bos (1940). “What is literature?”
“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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