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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."

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James Thurber

#Fear Quotes #Men Quotes #Desperation Quotes

  • “When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.”

    Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

  • “Evolution is cleverer than you are.”

  • “Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.”

  • “A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality”

  • “My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.”

  • “A winning effort begins with preparation.”

  • “Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.”

  • “Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”

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