"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"

-- Quentin Crisp

#Flirty Quotes #House Quotes #World Quotes

“The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.”
“I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!”
“Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.”
“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books
“Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.”
“When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.”
“We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 9, 2016

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