"I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning."

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Helen DeWitt

#Morning Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”
“Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press
“I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.”
“For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.”
“No one should say whether others should breed or not, that would go against how I feel a woman has the right to choose. Everyone has the right to feel regret.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.”
“There is a noble and a base side to every history.”
“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.”

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