"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Life Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.”
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”
“The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (2015). “Sister Carrie: Top American Novels”, p.54, 谷月社
“I'm always my own worst enemy. I'm like, 'Every show's my last.' I'm a lunatic, but that's my own issue. If I had time, I'd spend it in therapy, let's be honest. But I don't, so I'll remain crazy. But the truth is, you want it to be good for the audience, TV Guide. Because a lot of times as a producer you put so much into your shows and when you see the network putting stuff into it too, it gets exciting.”
“Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.”
“A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.”
“We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.”
“If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. Whatâ€™s more, when you choose to act, youâ€™re able to succeed more frequently than you think. How often in life do we avoid doing something because we think weâ€™ll fail? Is failure really worse than doing nothing? And how often might we actually have triumphed if we had just decided to give it a try?”

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