"I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'"

-- Walter Mosley

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“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
“When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.”
“I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.”
“Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.”
“Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.”
“the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”

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