"I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin."

-- Walter Mosley

#Suicide Quotes #Fear Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.”
“I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.”
“The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.”
“No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken.”
“Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.”
“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.”

Source : "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.
“I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213”

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