"I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was."

-- Clive James

#Fate Quotes #Egomaniacs Quotes #Cosmos Quotes

“How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.”
“It's so important to look relaxed.”
“A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.”
“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”
“This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Views and reviews; essays in appreciation: I. Literature. II. Art”
“Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.”
“How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?”

Source : John Corvino (2013). “What's Wrong with Homosexuality?”, p.4, Oxford University Press
“Design is everything. Everything!”

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