"It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world."

-- Maxwell Perkins

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Damage Quotes

“I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.”
“That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?”
“I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.”
“I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.”
“My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.”
“No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.”
“Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights”
“Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.”

Source : "Dominion", (p. 6), December 30, 1991.

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