"The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris."

-- Milton Mayer

#Summer Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Dirty Quotes

“As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon”
“But the adjectives change,â€ said Jimmy. â€œNothingâ€™s worse than last yearâ€™s adjectives.”
“For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.”

Source : Martin Niemöller (1937). “Here stand I!”
“A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.”
“I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.”
“I'm not a ***** user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.”
“I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.”

Source : David Rakoff (2015). “The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”, p.164, Anchor
“I'm not a make-up person, I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine. Less is more: "no makeup" makeup.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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