"You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost."

-- George Horace Lorimer

#Lying Quotes #World Quotes #Lost Quotes

“My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.”
“Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.”
“One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.”
“I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.”
“I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
“Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.”
“Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.”
“Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!”

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