"Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any."

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Source : Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

Edith Wharton

#Half Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Thatâ€™s not the only reason Iâ€™m stayinâ€™, chica. I canâ€™t leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my leg is busted up. I was just thinkinâ€™ . . . should we tell your parents now or later?â€ â€œTell them what?â€ I ask, eyes wide. He kisses me softly, then says proudly, â€œThat weâ€™re in a serious, monogamous, committed relationship.â€ â€œWe are?â€ â€œSÃ. And when I get out of here, Iâ€™m gonna fix the door to your car.”
“At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.”
“I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.”
“Barack Obama is the worst president in history,”

Source : "Arizona Congressional Candidate Ben Quayle Defends Controversial Obama Ad". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. August 12, 2010.
“Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being”
“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?”
“Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”

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