"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up."

-- Rosa Parks

#Inspirational Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Tired Quotes

“I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.”
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

Source : "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.
“Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.”
“I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.”
“If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.”
“I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.”
“Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night”
“England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.”

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