Dupire 1994 Quotes

#1. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.

Albert Camus

#2. Go and be fish again.

Ernest J. Gaines

#3. It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

Claire Tomalin

#4. If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Sven Birkerts

#5. Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

Guy Ritchie

#6. Fornication and adultery are a plague of the last days.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. What does a river know about this and what does a tree know?
And I, who am no more than those, what do I know?
Every time I look at things and think about what men think about them,
I laugh like how a brook sounds cool on a stone.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Douglas Coupland

#9. The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

William J. Brennan

#10. Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

Marjorie Spiegel

#12. Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

Mark Rutte

#13. In recognition of his service, Rome named Herod "King of the Jews", granting him a kingdom that would ultimately grow larger than that of King Solomon

Reza Aslan

#14. Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,

Jeffrey Eugenides