750 The Game Quotes & Sayings

But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant. Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave - a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend. Even — Michel Houellebecq

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon. — Edward Topsell

The modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink ... accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism, colour prejudice, industrial unrest, cynicism about politicians; the list is endless. — Auberon Waugh

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated. — Seth Godin

If you don't want to leave your home, how can you begin your journey to what you want? — Debasish Mridha

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those qualities in which we personally, or our societies more generally, are deficient. We respect a style which can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave: a style which carries the correct dosage of our missing virtues. — Alain De Botton

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink. — Stephanie Clifford