"Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues."

-- Kenneth Minogue

#Vices Quotes #Moral Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.”

Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.70
“No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.”
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.”
“I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)”
“People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.”
“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.”
“Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.”
“Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit.”

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