"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."

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Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com

Edwidge Danticat

#Government Quotes #Cities Quotes #People Quotes

“Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?”
“Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice”
“I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, â€œLove one another as I have loved you.â€ Ask yourself â€œHow has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?â€ Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”
“A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.”
“Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.”
“To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.”
“With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.”

Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.
“You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.”

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