"I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them."

-- Katharine Susannah Prichard

#Art Quotes #Mad Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.”
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
“But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.”
“Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.”
“I feel like people think of me as someone who really believes in a "sex as empowerment" philosophy, like Sasha Grey or something, when actually I feel like I'm much more what a lot of liberal feminists would call "sex negative" than most women I know.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.
“Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.”
“It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.”

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