"I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge."

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Source : DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.71, Faber & Faber

D.B.C. Pierre

#People Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”
“Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.”

Source : Bruce Herschensohn (2000). “The Gods of Antenna”, p.72, iUniverse
“I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.”
“It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.”
“I have worked with some great directors.”
“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the ***** of New Orleans.”
“I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.”

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