Quotes
Authors
Grenville Kleiser

"New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity."

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

Grenville Kleiser

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“I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.”
“Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.”

Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”
“Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.”
“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”
“The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.”
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
“Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.”
“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.182, Granta

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