"When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects."

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Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

Luc Sante

#Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.”
“When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.”

Source : 1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.
“The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options”
“You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.”

Source : "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.
“We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.”
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

Source : Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore
“Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.”

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