"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds."

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Source : Quoted in Life, 10 Apr. 1950

Farouk of Egypt

#Kings Quotes #Heart Quotes #Clubs Quotes

“A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.”
“Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.”
“Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.”
“It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out... I am here to serve your every need, King James.”
“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”
“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
“[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.”

Source : Karl Mannheim (1936). “Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge”

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