Quotable quotes

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

“The world taught me that things could always be worse. I learned to always look up, to take what I could get, to settle. I became too blinded by my bright sides to see the truth. Sometimes, you look at the silver lining so much that you drift into denial about the clouds.”

Raven Kennedy, Gleam

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

"It is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction. Such impulses are certainly very strong, perhaps even stronger than most of us know. But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas."

-- Lionel Trilling

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

 

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[Alistair]

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

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[Alistair]

An old Chinese proverb

 

[Alistair]

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Ernest Hemingway

 

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[HoodedRat]

"Telling the truth about something makes it part of your past
Lying about something makes it part of your future."

From someone on Reddit