"This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them."

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Source : Franz Wright (2013). “Kindertotenwald”, p.9, Knopf

Franz Wright

#Eye Quotes #Weight Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.”
“Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.”
“So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."”
“There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.”
“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage
“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.”
“Clutter is the disease of American writing,”

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