"A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political."

-- Dacia Maraini

#Political Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.”
“There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.”
“Don't be a prisoner of your own style!”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 27, 2011
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
“I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.”
“When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
“The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.”

Source : "On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays". Book by Albert J. Nock, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and Londo, 1928.
“Did you know it's possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?”

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