"Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition."

-- Bill Moyers

#Mistake Quotes #Journalism Quotes #Libel Quotes

“How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?”
“GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.”

Source : Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.265, Grove Press
“The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.”

Source : George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, Penguin UK
“Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.”
“In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.”
“I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.”
“There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
“In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.”

Source : Lawrence Kelemen (2001). “To Kindle a Soul”, p.195, Feldheim Publishers

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