"What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones."

-- Max Lerner

#Addiction Quotes #Mind Quotes #Pills Quotes

“Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?”
“I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.”

Source : "Ireland upset Australia as Rugby World Cup moves up a gear" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2011.
“So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after”

Source : Mona Simpson (2010). “My Hollywood”, p.238, Vintage
“Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.”
“We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.”
“The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation...”
“It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.”
“[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”

Source : Richard Francis Burton, John Payne, Andrew Lang, Jonathan Scott (2015). “One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics)”, p.4187, Delphi Classics

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