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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. ↗


— F. Scott Fitzgerald


#did #forties #friends #know #love

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. ↗


— Charles Bowen


#constitution #culture #knowledge #more #pop

Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. At Rouen, he said, he had never had any desire to go and see a Paris company at the theatre. He couldn't swim, or fence, or fire a pistol, and was unable to explain a riding term she came across in a novel one day. Wheras a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you in all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing. He thought she was unhappy; and she hated him for that placid immobility, that stolid serenity of his, for that very happiness which she herself brought him. ↗


— Gustave Flaubert


#contentment #static #dreams

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ↗


— F. Scott Fitzgerald


#around #bores #feet #fools #genius

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary. ↗


— Grandmaster Flash


#art #art form #cowboy #creating #everyone

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗


— Charles Caleb Colton


#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ↗


— Charles Caleb Colton


#extravagance #more #ruined #souls #than

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗


— Charles Caleb Colton


#imprudent #more #nothing #prudence #than

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. ↗


— Christopher Columbus


#approach #ashore #completely #dispatched #doubt

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. ↗


— Gustave Flaubert


#effect #faster #more #sticks #thought






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