Trismegistus Persona Quotes

#1. Death was unpleasant, but it was a familiar and tolerable ache in his chest.

Nora Sakavic

#2. At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Sean Parker

#3. There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Chris Hedges

#4. People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

Katharine Hepburn

#5. Where did they go?"
"Where the leaves go in autumn," Will said.
Bran looked at him and seemed suddenly to relax; he grinned. "There's poetic, now."
Will laughed. "It's true. Of course, the trouble with leaves is, they grow again ...

Susan Cooper

#6. "I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

Charles Dickens

#7. People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

Michael Franti

#8. It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the fact that the people are dirty and smell bad and eat each other and use human heads for decoration.

Neal Stephenson

#9. When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

Jacques Pepin

#10. Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

Joan Walsh Anglund