"But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and hereâ€™s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Spring Quotes #Mean Quotes #Agency Quotes

“The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.
“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.”
“Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.”
“That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.”
“I would like to direct.”
“Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable...one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions...therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant”
“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
“The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.”

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