"A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously."

-- Oscar Wilde

“Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.”
“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”
“Happy is he who can give himself up.”
“My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.”
“The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.”

Source : "Dirty truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.
“Iâ€™m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.”
“It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.”
“Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.”

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