"Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will."

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Source : Kate Simon (1986). “A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence”, HarperCollins Publishers

Kate Simon

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“The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.”
“Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.”
“I was a stunt man for 35 years.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.”
“I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.”
“At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.”
“After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada
“War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

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