"Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening."

-- Alexander Woollcott

#Illegal Quotes #Fattening Quotes #Immoral Quotes

“The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease.”
“I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”
“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.”
“You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.”

Source : Deb Olin Unferth (2010). “Vacation”, p.99, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.”
“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.”
“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes ...”

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