"Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread."

-- B. Traven

#People Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.”
“I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.”
“A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.”
“To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their love. On the one hand, they are living a sort of dream; on the other, without realizing it, they are drawing up the fine print of their contracts like the most hard-nosed of lawyers. O lovers! Be wary during those perilous first days! If you serve the other party breakfast in bed, you will be obliged to continue same in perpetuity or face charges of animosity and treason!”
“There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.”
“The only sin is the sin of being born”
“I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”

Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan
“I'm a late-night guy.”

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