"The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines."

-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Drama Quotes #Vaccines Quotes #Drug Quotes

“The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.”
“I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.”
“This is true for most new products. The majority of people you're competing with are non-users. They are people who have never used your service before. And what they say is actually the most important. What they say is the thing that blocks you from expanding the size of your market with your features.”
“Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”

Source : The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University
“One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.”

Source : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ch. 1 (1961)
“There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.”
“Conciseness is underrated”
“I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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