"She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting."

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Gertrude Stein

#Interesting Quotes #Abnormal Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.”
“Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.”
“History is made by those who say no.”

Source : Jon Savage (2011). “England's Dreaming”, p.510, Faber & Faber
“Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.”
“There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.”
“I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way off the pace. Not having made a tackle or played a game for so long beforehand would be a disadvantage. It would be ideal if he has a couple of games first, but who with?”
“We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.”

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