"I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound."

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Source : 'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves' (1762) ch. 6

Tobias Smollett

#Thinking Quotes #Mad Quotes #Half Quotes

“I don't think Vladimir Putin goes to the theater enough to even deign to think there was any criticism intended. We were invited by Moscow. Maybe they wanted a particular production of Julius Caesar in order to remind Putin that he was vulnerable, but that wasn't our intention.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.”
“Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.”

Source : Edward Weston (1988). “Edward Weston”
“Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.”
“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”

Source : "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”
“I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.”
“If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.”

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