"It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it."

-- Terry Eagleton

#Thinking Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.”
“I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.”

Source : "Is this it?". August 15, 2008.
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.149, St. Martin's Griffin
“If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well,”
“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.”
“I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.”
“The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.”

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