"You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain."

-- Inge Lehmann

#Men Quotes #Vain Quotes #Should Quotes

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”
“The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.”
“All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.”

Source : "Obituaries". www.fpp.co.uk. July 11, 2003.
“Are you going to tell me what that was about?â€ Adam asked as we went back upstairs. â€œSometime,â€ I told him. â€œWhen we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.”
“Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.”

Source : "Don Quixote: A Novel". Book by Kathy Acker, 1986.
“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
“Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.”
“I dont know how to say this but... I LOVE YOU”

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