"Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"‘The problem you have put me will remain a problem till the globe of the world and the globe of the sun meet in their common center and the one consumes the other. This answer I have proposed, however…"

— Samuel R. Delany

Literature1942

#Human Nature

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

— Iris Murdoch

Philosophy1919–1999

#Human Nature

"Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism."

— Thomas Sowell

Economics1930

#Human Nature

"So it was that I became one of those dark men whose 'surest sign of ... having arrived is the fact that he keeps company with people lighter in complexion than himself'."

— C. L. R. James

Literature1901–1989

#Human Nature