"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."

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Source : "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

Ian Mcewan

#Torn Quotes #Materials Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.”
“I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.”
“I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.”
“Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.”

Source : "Why am I doing this absurd job?". www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.
“No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.”
“The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.”
“If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.”

Source : "Interview With Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS.)". www.blackelectorate.com. July 12, 2000.
“No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.”

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