"Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and itâ€™s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway."

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Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

Bill Konigsberg

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“You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get rid of that screen to be able to see what is behind. X's ideas are limited, that is why he remains on the surface. Y got rid of the limits, so she always goes to the depths. We should always meet people and new subjects with no set frame of mind. We have to live like that even after long acquaintance. We must get rid of every set idea to approach everything and everyone with love.”
“In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.”

Source : Sue Kaufman (1974). “Falling Bodies”, Doubleday Books
“One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others”
“The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.”
“Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.”
“I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.”

Source : Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress
“I was raised that emotion was a good thing.”
“Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.”

Source : Dan Flavin (1989). “Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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