"A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself."

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Source : Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

Will Cuppy

#Civilization Quotes #Hermits Quotes #Alienation Quotes

“[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.”
“Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.”
“I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.”
“For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.”
“Temptation out of reach does you no good.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.236, Penguin
“The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.”
“My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.”
“...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

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