"I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish."

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Source : Joseph Roth (2012). “Joseph Roth”, p.39, Granta Books

Joseph Roth

#Pudding Quotes #Dishes Quotes

“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”

Source : James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10
“I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah,”

Source : "Lupe Ontiveros Proudly Portrayed Dozens Of Maids". Interview With Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. July 27, 2012.
“When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.”
“[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.”
“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.”
“Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.”
“If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.”
“After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.”

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