"Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs."

-- Stephen Leacock

#Clever Quotes #Tired Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.”
“London is a bad habit one hates to lose.”

Source : William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”
“I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.”
“The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.”
“Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.”
“My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.”
“Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.”
“We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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