"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"

-- Virginia Woolf

#Illusion Quotes #Praise Quotes #Catastrophe Quotes

“We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.”

Source : "Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. December 4, 2012.
“Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.”

Source : Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing
“It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.”
“I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.”
“Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.”
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
“Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.”
“In countries like Afghanistan, the corruption is in your face. In Nigeria, I heard of judges making sex the bargaining chip rather than money. Now let's put that in the context of an honor-based society. Imagine that you're the brother of a woman who got raped by a judge to have her case heard in court. What do you want to do? You want to kill the judge. So here is an insurgent movement that hands you a gun. You have rage, and they give you an outlet for your rage.”

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