"People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations."

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Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

Bessie Head

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“In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.”

Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe
“Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.”
“I don't work with people who ask me questions.”

Source : "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.
“This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had.”
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.”
“Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.”
“It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.”
“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.”

Source : "American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2009.

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