"Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown menâ€”at least he always did when he was a kidâ€”because they pretend thatâ€™s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives."

-- Russell Banks

#Kids Quotes #Men Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.”
“Be kind, aim for my heart.”
“A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.”
“One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.”
“If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.”
“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”
“Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”

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