"Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Animal Quotes #Talking Quotes #Fool Quotes

“I love chilling in a cute sweatsuit and wedge sandals or sneakers.”
“Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.”
“In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!”

Source : Tim F. LaHaye (1978). “The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality”
“Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other MenÂ ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.”
“It's difficult to define catharsis. But I think that only those who acknowledge and respond to unseen worlds and energies can harness the power of those sources. The catharsis I experienced with my whole body during gut is reflected in my work.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when itâ€™s burning down.”
“Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("Ã©tant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.
“You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.”

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