“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause. In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause to care about.” Muhammad Ali
“nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame”
― Hector and the Search for Happiness
― Hector and the Search for Happiness
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.”
― Hector and the Search for Happiness
― Hector and the Search for Happiness
“Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”
― Griffin & Sabine
― Griffin & Sabine
“Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!”
― Flappers and Philosophers
― Flappers and Philosophers
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