"Paris had more sex than most church-laden places, and more church than most sex-laden places. Parisians crowed about Travail-Famille-Patrie while frequenting brothels. They enjoyed visiting drag shows while clamping down on homosexuality. They celebrated romance while treating women like dirt. Many of these contradictions existed elsewhere, but I do think Paris ruled the hypocrisy championships."

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Luc Sante

#Thinking Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Romance Quotes

“There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of that, when you find yourself not fitting the way things are designed to be, it's a simple matter of just learning how you ought to be and working to restore the way things are supposed to be.”
“It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same. Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.”
“The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.”
“Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.”
“Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.”
“The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.”
“What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.”
“Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.”

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