"Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Dog Quotes #Fire Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.”
“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.”
“During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.”
“The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys”
“Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.”
“Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.”
“Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.”
“God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

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