"People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control."

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Source : "A Pryor Love". www.newyorker.com. September 13, 1999.

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#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.”
“Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.”
“If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.”
“As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.”
“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
“From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.”
“Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we know under the right light, that illusion they believe will fall, and show us for what we really are instead of who they secretly hope us to be.”
“I have never lost my faith in God.”

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