"I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Mistake Quotes #Exit Quotes #Knows Quotes

“Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.”
“The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.”

Source : Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley
“Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.”
“Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.”
“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”
“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
“You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.”

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