"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Fiction Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.”
“... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.”
“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”
“I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.
“New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?”
“A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.”
“I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.”

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