"All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Self Quotes #Cells Quotes #People Quotes

“Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.”
“With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.”
“English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.”
“I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.”
“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.”
“What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.”
“Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.”

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