"Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life."

-- Sophie Barthes

#Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes #Good Enough Quotes

“In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.”
“The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.”
“The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.”
“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”

Source : Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage
“I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether it's organizing against big factories polluting their air or against big banks corrupting our economy and political system.”

Source : "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.”
“But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.”
“If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each otherâ€¦youâ€™d rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.”

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