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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Comfort

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.
I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.


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