"Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Ugly Quotes #Facade Quotes #Glorious Quotes

“My life is perfect even when it's not.”
“Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'”
“Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.”
“It's so important to look relaxed.”
“I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.”
“Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.187, Penguin
“Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.”

Source : Donald Worster (1992). “Under western skies: nature and history in the American West”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.”

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