“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
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“Nothing drives men crazier than the inability to possess.”
― The Improbability of Love
― The Improbability of Love
“There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more suprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.”
― The Finishing School
― The Finishing School
“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
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