Quotes
Authors
John H Richardson
"Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative comments. I think the Willie Parker piece had more of an impact on people in that sense because it went deeper into the clinic itself." --
Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
John H Richardson
#Thinking Quotes
#Impact Quotes
#Awards Quotes
“The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.”
Source : Sarah Schulman (2006). “Empathy”, Arsenal Pulp PressLtd
“Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.”
“Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.”
“always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.”
“Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.”
“Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.”
“I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.”
“His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.”
