"You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance"

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Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield

Errol Flynn

#Wisdom Quotes #Australia Quotes #Never Trust Quotes

“When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.”
“I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.”

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“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.”
“Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.”
“Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.”
“Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.”
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.”

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