"Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated â€“ in the main, abominably â€“ because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Echoes Quotes #Profound Quotes #Desire Quotes

“After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.”
“If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.”
“There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.”

Source : "From The Vault: Umair Haque: Redefining How We Measure Economic Growth". Interview with Dylan Ratigan, www.dylanratigan.com. December 2011.
“Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.”
“I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.”
“One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.”
“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”

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