"Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law."

-- Ian Curtis

#Law Quotes #Insecurity Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.”
“Looking for me, Angel?”
“A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.”
“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
“By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose!”
“Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.”
“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”

Source : George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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