"I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with."

-- Simon Munnery

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“There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.”
“there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.”
“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”
“I'm not an ordinary prisoner.”
“The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.”
“What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of lifeâ€”love and sacrifice.”
“I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
“We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.”

Source : Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong (2003). “Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism”, Red Letter Press

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