"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."

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Source : Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

Cecil Beaton

#Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.”
“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”

Source : FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013
“I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.”
“The universe implodes. No matter.”
“We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.”

Source : "U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis". Book by Richard Breitman, 2004.
“I have so much to do! And there's so little time!”

Source : JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”
“My feelings for you run very deep." - Loor Not deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)”
“The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.”

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