"I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence."

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Source : "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic books series by Jhonen Vasquez, August 1995 – January 1997.

Jhonen Vasquez

#Silence Quotes #Wish Quotes #Contentment Quotes

“People have to respect intellectual property.”

Source : "Chinese pop stars protest piracy". www.wired.com. April 04, 2002.
“Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.”
“Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.”
“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
“Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression”
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.
“Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.”
“The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.”

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