Ducorps With Goffin Quotes & Sayings

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders. — William Golding

Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror. — Jane Kirkpatrick

The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley? — Charlie Munger

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I've never known anything good in writing to come from having accepted any free gift of money. The good writer never applies to a foundation. He's too busy writing something. If he isn't first rate he fools himself by saying he hasn't got time or economic freedom. Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. — William Faulkner

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking
being awake
consciousness. — Novalis

Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins — Andy Townsend

These skill-sets usually take time to develop so the — Matt Morris

Eople don't know how to be happy; they wouldn't know what to do with their lives if they woke up one morning and discovered they had everything they ever dreamt of. — Alice Walsh

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. If we are to avoid mistake in weighing one against the other, we must clearly distinguish natural liberty, which is bounded only by the strength of the individual, from civil liberty, which is limited by the general will; and possession, which is merely the effect of force or the right of the first occupier, from property, which can be founded only on a positive title. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laughing at what you didn't have and never would was better than letting it depress you, — Eric Van Lustbader

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. — Madame De Stael

Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a line to one of a set of other lines — Anonymous

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me. — Adam Levine