"If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#People Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #Way Quotes

“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.”
“I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.”

Source : Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK
“There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed â€“ sort of â€“ but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.”
“The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.”
“Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.”

Source : Charlas de Cafe
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”

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