"I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery."

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Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.89, LSU Press

John Kennedy Toole

#Fall Quotes #Men Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.”
“My mother's a pretty warm, open person.”

Source : "SUNDANCE FUTURES | “Pariah” Actress Adepero Oduye". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2011.
“Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His Master." There may be weeping that shall endure for a night, but joy shall come in the morning. If the night cometh, so also the morning, "a morning without clouds," the morning of an eternal day.”
“Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has,”

Source : "Joe Theismann: Kirk Cousins has outplayed RGIII" By Dan Steinberg, www.washingtonpost.com. August 23, 2014.
“God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.”
“Europeâ€™s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.”
“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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