Quotes
Authors
W. Eugene Smith

"I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, â€˜This is warâ€™-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war."

-- W. Eugene Smith

#War Quotes #Believe Quotes #Race Quotes

“Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.”
“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”
“. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.”
“Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.”
“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”
“Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?”

Source : Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated
“Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.”
“You came along and changed everything. I donâ€™t want to be some guy youâ€™re fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.”

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