"And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting."

-- Meg Wolitzer

#Self Quotes #Envy Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.”

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan
“There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'”
“Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.”
“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
“With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.”
“I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.”
“If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.”

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