“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.”
― The Wide Window
― The Wide Window
“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”
― Hell's Angels
― Hell's Angels
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
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