"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days itâ€™s made out of. Nothin else."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Life Quotes #Truth Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...”

Source : Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books
“A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.”
“What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.”
“It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.”
“We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.”
“As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.”
“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”
“I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'”

Source : "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. June 10, 2006.

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