"It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world."

-- Colm Toibin

#World Quotes #Treasure Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The American people are frustrated.”

Source : "Florida's Attorney General Fighting Government Stall Tactics in Multi-State Health Care Battle". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2011.
“I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.”
“Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.”
“I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.”
“You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.”
“In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.”
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'”

Source : William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing
“Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.”

Source : Marcus Garvey (1987). “Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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