"He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters."

-- George Steiner

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“The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Aunt Ida". "Female Trouble", www.imdb.com. 1974.
“I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.”
“I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright”
“Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their "rightness." The whole world will tell them what's wrong with them--out loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what's right about them.”

Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
“What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciouslyÂ â€” but you don't.Â It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.”
“Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.”
“A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.”
“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.”

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