"We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kim Hyesoon

#Play Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Skins Quotes

“I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.”

Source : "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?". Interview with Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. February 24, 1997.
“Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.”
“A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.”
“What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.”
“[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.”

Source : Truth Radio, April 3, 2006.
“The people of the world, all of them, whether it is the different race or the different language or the different lifestyle, tend to only think about what we cannot share. But our brains are all the same. We are the same people. With everyoneâ€™s strength, we can all share the same feelings. That much is obvious. But it wonâ€™t come easily.”
“The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.”

Source : "Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

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