"I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences."

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Ben H. Winters

#Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“A big chunk of [Donald] Trump's tax cut would go to businesses.”

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“To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Nicoletta Lanciano (2005). “Hadrian's villa: between heaven and earth : a tour with Marguerite Yourcenar”
“For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.”
“We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.”
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
“There's a whole network of people ready to simply inculcate you and enfold you into their world and they want more and more people in their world because they are in a campaign to change everything”
“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”
“Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.”

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