"Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Penelope Fitzgerald

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“The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.”
“There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.”
“Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.”
“You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.”

Source : John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp "The Causes of the Civil War" (p. 89), 1959.
“Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.”
“Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 05, 2013
“You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.”

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