"Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters."

-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.”
“Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”
“The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of my access. And it was a very negative caricature. There's this propensity for blaming a woman. It comes down to implicit bias. There are so many studies that show this.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.”
“We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.”
“I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.”
“30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.”

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