"As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity."

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Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

Ernst Toller

#Kings Quotes #Hero Quotes #Boys Quotes

“If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.”
“It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.”
“Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.”
“I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.”
“What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.”
“St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.”
“I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.”
“For me, it really just feels calm. When you're going fast on a downhill course, it's typically where it's wide open. I think it's kind of like driving a car. If you're going really fast and it's straight, everything seems to slow down. In general, racing downhill involves bigger turns and everything sort of slows down and you have a lot of time to think.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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