"I think one of the reasons anti-immigration state laws start to happen is they happen in states where there is an enormous influx. In these places, the dominant culture, the Anglo culture has held sway for such a very, very long time. Now, they are living in another culture, another language. They fear losing dominance and control. It is sadly human nature to find a group to scapegoat. This happens throughout man's history."

-- Rilla Askew

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Culture Quotes

“There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.”
“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”
“All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.”

Source : Marian Engel (1968). “No Clouds of Glory”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
“I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.”
“Stability is not the way of the world.”
“The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.”
“Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.”
“I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.”

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