"Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals."

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Source : Colson Whitehead (2014). “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death”, p.69, Anchor

Colson Whitehead

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“It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.”
“It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.129, Radclyffe Hall
“We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Donald Trumo is the fourth president Vladimir Putin is going to have worked with, OK? Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump. He respects toughness. He doesn't respect weakness. He decided, rightly or wrongly, that Obama was not a tough guy. And the question is whether or not Trump acts tough. We know he can. Right? We don't know whether he will.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“Money won is always better than money earned.”
“I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.”

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