"When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country."

-- William Hazlitt

#Country Quotes #Wish Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
“The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.”
“We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4
“If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.”
“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale”
“I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.”
“Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2017). “We Ate Wonder Bread”, p.2, Fantagraphics Books

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