"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Penelope Fitzgerald

#Safe Quotes #Morality Quotes #Guides Quotes

“You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“There's no victory-condition for being human.”
“Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.”
“After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.”
“A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.”
“We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsâ€”that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.”
“I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently.”
“The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.”

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