"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

-- John Steinbeck

#Believe Quotes #Dedication Quotes #Men Quotes

“Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.59, Vintage
“Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.”
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
“Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal”
“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.”
“To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr
“Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.”

Source : James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.”

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