"Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!"

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Source : Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press

Heinrich BÃ¶ll

#Seriousness Quotes #Earnestness Quotes

“We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”
“Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.”
“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.”
“One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.”
“Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.”

Source : Joe R. Lansdale (2016). “Bad Chili: Hap and Leonard Book Four”, p.12, Hachette UK
“The Constitution doesn't mention rain.”
“You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.”
“History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action, is a means of focusing for action and of creating action. By means of our intercessions we veritably cast fire upon the earth and trumpet the future into being.”

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