"Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did."

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Source : Cornell Woolrich (2007). “Night Has a Thousand Eyes”, p.77, Pegasus Books

Cornell Woolrich

#Feet Quotes #Looks Quotes #World Quotes

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

Source : 'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11
“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns”

Source : Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.117
“[Paul Scheer] was kind of pretending to not be as sick as he was. And then we almost pulled into this spa when I finally called it and said, "I'm very ill. We need to go home." And he said, "I am, too." He said that he wasn't going to do his treatments, he was going to - by the way, these are great problems to have - he was going to lie in the men's relaxation room in between throwing up. I was like, "This is insane. We're sick, and we need to just acknowledge it. And it sucks that it happened on my birthday, but let's get back into bed."”
“Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?”
“Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.”
“I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.”
“I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.”

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