"Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime."

-- Karl Kraus

#Lying Quotes #Tools Quotes #Merit Quotes

“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”
“Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.”

Source : Mary Abigail Dodge (1872). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.281
“I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'”
“You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.”

Source : "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.
“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
“Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin
“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”

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