"I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition."

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Thinking Quotes #Nervous Quotes #Sensitive Quotes

“I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.”
“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!”
“I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value.”

Source : Geoffrey Household (2010). “Rogue Male”, p.76, New York Review of Books
“It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.”

Source : Peter Heller (2014). “The Painter: A novel”, p.58, Vintage
“All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.”
“My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind”
“Cents are the most universally used interval measure.”

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