"We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot."

-- Melina Marchetta

#Stupid Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Different Quotes

“... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.”
“when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.480, Open Road Media
“Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.”
“The best theory is inspired by practice.”
“...Ere midnightâ€™s frown and morningâ€™s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.”
“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.”
“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”

Source : César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing
“Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.”

Source : Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

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