"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."

-- Keith Henson

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“Intelligence is nothing without delight.”
“Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.”
“I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”
“The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.”
“Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.”
“You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

Source : "Dorothy and Red". Book by Vincent Sheean, 1963.

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