"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is."

-- Lenny Bruce

#Live Life Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.”

Source : "The Ubyssey" (student newspaper of the University of British Columbia), February 9, 1979.
“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
“All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.”
“I am an optimistic lady.”
“Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.”
“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as dogs are. Few people feel sympathy for rats. Yet rats are intelligent animals, and there can be no doubt that rats are capable of suffering and do suffer from countless painful experiments performed on them. If the army were to stop experiments on dogs and switch to rats instead, we should not be any less concerned.”

Source : "Animal-rights pioneer says de Blasio carriage deal misses bigger picture" by Dana Rubinstein, www.politico.com. January 25, 2016.
“Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.”

Source : Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.169, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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