"Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone."

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Source : Eileen Myles (2016). “I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014”, p.138, Profile Books

Eileen Myles

#Civilization Quotes #Messages Quotes #I Have Learned Quotes

“I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.”

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“I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.”
“Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.”
“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”
“Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.”
“REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'”
“What people don't realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can't make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter.”

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“Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.”

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