"Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior."

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Source : Steven Brust (2008). “Jhegaala”, p.251, Macmillan

Steven Brust

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.”
“Satanic forces are here and they are not friendly!”
“I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.”
“I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.”
“Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.”
“The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.”
“The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.”
“The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.”

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