Vilna Russia Quotes & Sayings

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing. — Samuel Hynes

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks. — Keith Rabois

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences. — Henry Hazlitt

People seemed to "decide" how much to eat based on box size as much as taste. — Leonard Mlodinow

Children are a kind of cartography, and all one has to do is obey the map they present to you on the day they are born. — Hanya Yanagihara

We think cheating, in reasonable amounts, is okay. These — Chetan Bhagat

I know all too well how painful it is to be constantly aroused, Kyrie. I've been hard for you since the moment I woke up. Since the moment I met you, honestly. I'm always hard for you, Kyrie. I ache for you every moment of every day. I wake up at night, having dreamed of burying my cock inside you, and when I wake up I'm mere moments for coming all over myself like a horny teenager. I am desperate to be inside you, Kyrie. This torture is for both of us. — Jasinda Wilder

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take. — Donald Knuth

Infants are interesting only to their parents. — Marya Mannes

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form. — Haruki Murakami

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak. — William Powell