"I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace."

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Source : Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday”

Gregory Corso

#Wise Quotes #Hair Quotes #White Quotes

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
“Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."”
“Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.”
“Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.”

Source : Joan Bauer (2005). “Stand Tall”, p.84, Penguin
“Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.”
“Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.”
“Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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