"When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?"

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Gunter Grass

#Triumph Quotes #Satan Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.”
“... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.”
“The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.”

Source : "The Spinners' Web". Book by Trevor Bailey and Fred Trueman, 1988.
“There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
“Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.”

Source : Preface to reprint of The Souls of Black Folk (1969).
“I'll not! The gents are impressed with the way that I'm dressed. I wouldn't change even one spot.”
“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

Source : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.106, Random House
“It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.”

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