"Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist sÃ©ance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose."

-- Malcolm Muggeridge

#Darkness Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
“I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!”
“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”

Source : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.
“That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'”
“Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.”
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
“Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.”

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