"You pronounced your words as if you donâ€™t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?"

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Evil Quotes #Giving Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.”
“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?”

Source : "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.
“I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.”
“The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.”
“The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
“To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...”
“When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.”
“Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.”

Source : "Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs". Book by George D. Prentice, 1859.

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