"Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras."

-- Herman Melville

#Judgement Quotes #Missionary Quotes #Enlightened Quotes

“In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.”
“[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.”
“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.”
“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.”
“Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.”
“The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.”
“Real wealth comes to the person who learns that we are paid best for the things we do for nothing.”
“A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.”

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