"Indifference is the strongest contempt."

-- Ha Jin

#Indifference Quotes #Contempt Quotes #Strongest Quotes

“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”
“The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.”
“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”
“... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
“You want to climb the mountain because itâ€™s there and you know you can do it.”
“Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.”
“My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.”
“You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.”

Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, 2007.

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