"I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Danzy Senna

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Envy Quotes

“I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.”
“Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.”
“I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.”
“â€ŽOur ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!”
“Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.”
“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.149, Courier Corporation
“The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.”

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