"Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot."

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Augustus William Hare

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Ink Quotes

“However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.”
“Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.”
“We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.”
“It was so useful to lie with the truth.”
“Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,”
“Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.”
“When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!”
“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.”

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