"Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation."

-- Pedro Pierluisi

#Two Quotes #Path Quotes #Sovereign Quotes

“Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.”
“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”
“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books
“The pictures are there, and you just take them.”
“The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.”
“Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!”
“The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.”

Source : Joseph M. Marshall III (2005). “The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History”, p.113, Penguin
“Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.”

Source : 1981 The White Hotel, author's note.

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