". . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow."

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Source : "The Devil In The White City". Book by Erik Larson, Seprember 30, 2010.

Erik Larson

#Men Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.”
“The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.
“The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.”
“We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted.”
“When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.”

Source : "Not My Job: Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Gets Quizzed On Downhill Cheese Races". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 11, 2014.
“Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.”
“The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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