"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."

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Edith Hamilton

#Facts Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Theory Quotes

“When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.”
“I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.”
“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”

Source : 1963 In Think, Feb.
“Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.”
“And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when youâ€™re losing money year after year... thatâ€™s not life even, thatâ€™s like death. Thatâ€™s eternal damnation.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008). “The Off Season”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love-- you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante-- all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine.”
“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”

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