"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Deep Thought Quotes #Looks Quotes #Abyss Quotes

“Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.”
“Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.”
“The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.”
“Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.”

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.
“You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.”
“People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.”

Source : "Jaws". "Forty Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1987.
“There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.”

Source : Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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