Dankness Book Quotes

#1. Intelligent? Kind?

Nicholas Sparks

#2. Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Franz Grillparzer

#3. The novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;

Marcel Proust

#4. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

Errol Morris

#5. Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals - one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

Plato

#7. It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. "Experience.

Ann Brashares