"We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time."

-- Andrew O'Hagan

“Where there are many counsellors there is safety.”
“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.”

Source : "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". 1989.
“When I'm aggressive and physically feel pretty good, I'm hard to stop.”
“God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things, he deals with each individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the evil.”
“The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.”
“When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.”
“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”
“There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

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