“Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?”
― Inamorata
― Inamorata
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
― "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
“The truth was, everything in life came down to intentions and results. Cooper’s intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn’t matter. Maybe the only thing that counted was results.”
― A Better World
― A Better World
“That’s the most tragic thing about child abuse and its effects—they never leave, just take on another form. The abuser goes on living as if nothing has ever happened, while the victim pays the price.”
― The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted
― The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted
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