"There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous."

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David Bezmozgis

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.”
“[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.”
“Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.”
“An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.”
“You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.161, Canongate Books
“The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.”
“Toxic masculinity hurts men, but thereâ€™s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.”

Source : Robert Jensen (2007). “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”
“The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”

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