"To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone."

-- Cary Grant

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“He's a player you only miss when he's not playing”
“Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”
“It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.”
“It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.”
“When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.”
“Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.”
“If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.”

Source : John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”
“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.”

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