Quotes
Authors
Eugene Delacroix

"The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple."

-- Eugene Delacroix

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“I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time of the Great Migration, and happen to be black, I'm trying to write a definitive account of the Great Migration, the so-called "black experience." That's not what I'm doing, and it can be frustrating.”
“There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.”
“Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.”
“Itâ€™s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or as I like to call it: â€˜marriage.â€™ You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didnâ€™t gay park it.”
“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
“As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.”
“When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.”
“The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.”

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