"We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Kind Quotes #Twisted Quotes #Drowning Quotes

“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”
“Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.”
“QED - Quod erat demonstrandum.”
“If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And they grow up as young people unable to take anything from a printed page, or they become bored because they haven't discovered the nuances, the differences of opinion, the differences of approach between one author and another. Children can be trusted to skip what they don't like in a book. That's perfectly all right. But to have it all reduced to the supposedly twelve-year-old mind of the adult public is what I object to.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.”

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.116, Macmillan
“The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.”
“Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.”
“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

Source : "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.

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