"Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections."

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Source : "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#Garden Quotes #Asylums Quotes #Cabbage Quotes

“If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.”
“Being free is a state of mind.”

Source : Song: Believe
“Never hurry and never worry!”
“The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!”
“The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.113, MIT Press
“I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.”
“I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.”

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