"I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine."

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Source : "Edie: Girl on Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

Edie Sedgwick

#People Quotes #Situation Quotes #Term Quotes

“What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
“Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.”
“Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”

Source : "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.
“It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.”
“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
“People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

Source : "Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich". Book by Solomon Volkov, New York: Limelight, pp. 158-9, 2006.
“Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing”
“Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.”

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