"Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing."

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Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press

Ernest Becker

#Drinking Quotes #Men Quotes #Shopping Quotes

“Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"”
“We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.”
“When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can have a free hand in the making of it. We've done spaces where things are hinged and they can go out or in, but that's not freedom. That's supermarket freedom, or the notion that you can have anything you want as long as the supermarket carries it. We would love to do a space where you go inside and there's nothing there. You might have a seat and when you don't need it anymore you get up and it disappears.”

Source : Source: www.revelinnewyork.com
“My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.”

Source : Source: irusa.org
“Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose”

Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.40, Knopf
“If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.”
“I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.”
“When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.”

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