"I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them."

-- Valeria Luiselli

#World Quotes #Speak Quotes

“You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.”
“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
“I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.”
“I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.102, London : R. Bentley
“Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.”
“I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.”

Source : "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.
“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”
“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.”

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