"They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried."

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Tim O'Brien

#Bears Quotes #Silent Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.”
“When Iâ€™m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”
“Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.”
“We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”
“I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.”
“I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.”

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“Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.”
“If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.”

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