"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

-- Mark Twain

#Life Quotes #Pain Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie â€“ or the gods, for that matterâ€¦Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itselfâ€¦the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.”
“When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.”

Source : Ernest Holmes (2012). “Creative Mind and Success”, p.34, Courier Corporation
“I'm a big PAX person... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS. You can carry it around, people don't really know what it is, no smell.”
“My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.”
“I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
“Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.”

Source : "Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.
“Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.”
“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

Source : Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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