“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”
― Splendor
― Splendor
“Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'
Like you?'
On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world.”
― Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul
Like you?'
On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world.”
― Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul
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