"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

-- Susan Griffin

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“For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty...”
“In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.”

Source : "Two Bands of True Believers Hurtling Toward a Collision" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2014.
“I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“If you're not frustrated that you're not playingÂ footballÂ then you shouldn't be playingÂ football”
“My thing from the beginning is to have it be useful, and be able to help others. It's about being efficient and getting there as fast as you can. If people want to do it more artistically or in a freestyle way, I have absolutely no problem with it â€” that's the way it's going to evolve. It's not my style, but if it's other people's [style], that's perfect.”
“I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2008). “When It Happens”, p.189, Penguin
“Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.”

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