"I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Suicide Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Book Quotes

“To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.”
“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”
“This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.”
“Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom forÂ granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the factÂ that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majorityÂ is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, whichÂ are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionallyÂ overwrought, they're almost always wrong.”
“Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.”
“Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.”
“Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.”

Source : Song: Until the Lion Learns to Speak
“Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.”

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