"Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle."

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Source : "Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2013.

Benjamin Lewin

#Struggle Quotes #Self Quotes #Class Quotes

“I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.”
“The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!”

Source : "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press
“Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.”
“No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that”
“To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.”

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