"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it."

-- J. D. Salinger

#Mean Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.”
“The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.”
“A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
“[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.”
“I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”

Source : Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics
“When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.”

Source : RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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