"It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait."

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Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

Kenneth Goldsmith

#People Quotes #Bait Quotes #Provocative Quotes

“Integrity is very important to me. I do what is right, not necessarily what is easy. My dealings with clients are fair and honest. I deal with issues immediately and dislike doing what can be done today, tomorrow.”
“Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.”
“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.”
“There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.108, Dial Press
“We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.”
“As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.”

Source : Richard Wiseman (2011). “Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “Collected Novels of E. M. Delafield (6 Unabridged Editions in One Volume): Zella Sees Herself, The War Workers, Consequences, Tension, The Heel of Achilles & Humbug by the Prolific Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting and The Way Things Are”, p.959, e-artnow
“The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.”

Source : Karen Kingston (2015). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui”, p.50, Harmony

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