"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."

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Source : Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

Russell Lynes

#Truth Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.”
“Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Everybody looks at their poop.”
“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”
“The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.”
“The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications
“Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.”
“There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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