"I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it."

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Source : Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.212

Emily Eden

#Murder Quotes #Found Quotes

“FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. Itâ€™s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. Itâ€™s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: itâ€™s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.”
“I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!”
“This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017
“From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.”
“I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.”
“It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.”
“I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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