"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Life Quotes #Soil Quotes #Grades Quotes

“I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.”
“There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.”
“The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.”

Source : "Sharon’s Last Option". Interview with Jennifer Byrne, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.
“Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.”

Source : Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”
“I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?”
“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”
“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”
“I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.”

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