"I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Thinking Quotes #Moral Quotes #Manners Quotes

“A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.”
“The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.”
“The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.”
“If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press
“We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”
“I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.”
“We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.”

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