"He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.”

Source : George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic
“Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.”
“I knew that if I woke up hung over, I couldn't do the best possible job on the show, so I had to quit. Also, I'd consumed a lot of beer for a lot of years, and I thought, That's enough. I've had my fun and I'm glad I quit.”
“The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?”
“When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.”
“Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.”
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

Source : "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.
“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”

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