Patrick King
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it’s real democracy if you can make the stupid people happy, cause if you’re not stupid you’re never happy anyway.
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
― Who Is Mark Twain?: Unpublished Personal Papers and Essays―Twenty-Six Works of Humor and Satire
― Who Is Mark Twain?: Unpublished Personal Papers and Essays―Twenty-Six Works of Humor and Satire
“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― The Place of Dead Roads
― The Place of Dead Roads
“The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. —RAYMOND CHANDLER, NOTEBOOKS”
― The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
― The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
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