"A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Men Quotes #Age Quotes #Vices Quotes

“The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.”
“Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.”
“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.”
“Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.”

Source : "The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey".
“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
“I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.”
“He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.”

Source : Bruce Robinson (2015). “The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing
“not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.255, U of Nebraska Press

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