"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied."

-- Zadie Smith

#Sadness Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.”

Source : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.
“No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.”
“Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.”
“There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.”
“In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.”
“People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.”
“Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.”
“They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have been, 'In the new world women will have total equality, so lets spend our energy creating that whole new world.' And to their credit, the women at Oneida probably had far greater practical equality than what any of the women gathered at Seneca Falls experienced in their lifetimes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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