"Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things."

-- Italo Calvino

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”
“Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?”

Source : "Fictional character: Domenico". "Nostalgia", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”
“Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.”
“I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.”
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”

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