"Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result"

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Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing

Yukio Mishima

#Results Quotes #Standpoint Quotes

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press
“If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.”
“For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.”
“I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“They will do anything for the worker, except become one.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.46, Spectra
“Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling”
“I was so frivolous for so many years. It was so much fun, but you feel guilty about the brain energy you use to think about whether some celebrity was sleeping with another celebrity. The conjecture that goes along with that. You feel like your mind has been shot apart.”
“It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.”

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