"The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery."

-- Bianca Jagger

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“There are lovers content with longing. Iâ€™m not one of them.”
“The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.”
“The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.”

Source : "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.
“If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.”
“Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.”
“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
“My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.”

Source : Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”

Source : "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.

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