"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."

-- J. G. Ballard

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“To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.”
“They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.”
“A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.”
“I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender politics and there [isn't] anything particularly progressive about it. That's what is baffling. You've got conservatives acting like liberals touting free speech and due process.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.”
“The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.”
“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
“Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.”

Source : Steve Andreas, Virginia Satir (1991). “Virginia Satir, the patterns of her magic”, Science & Behavior Books

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