"How uninteresting interesting things can become."

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Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Robert Walser

#Interesting Quotes #Interesting Things Quotes

“Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.”
“My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.”

Source : Dorothy Height, Height (2009). “Ebk Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memo”, p.15, PublicAffairs
“What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”
“America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.”
“It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.”
“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”
“Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.”

Source : Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.27, Faber & Faber
“Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

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