"The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Marco Roth

#Important Quotes #Roles Quotes #Gone Quotes

“It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.”
“Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.”
“Do your practice and all is coming.”

Source : John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books
“During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.”
“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.”
“What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.56, Akashic Books
“The only person Ill marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.”
“The weirdest love stories are always the best”

Source : "Venuto al mondo [Twice Born]". www.imdb.com. September 13, 2012.

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