"The world wants to be cheated. So cheat."

-- Xaviera Hollander

#Want Quotes #World Quotes #Cheat Quotes

“I like kissing people because it's funny.”
“R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).”
“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;â€¦ to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”
“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”
“No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”

Source : John Bunyan, George Barrell Cheever (1850). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come,: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country”, p.89
“I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.”
“You need a lot of energy to get a novel finished. You need an ability to ignore everyone around you. It's why I don't read my reviews any more. I know a lot of people say that, but I really don't read them.”
“I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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