"The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty."

-- Thomas Adams

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“You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.”
“The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.”

Source : Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.81, Canongate Books
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.”
“I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com
“I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am unable to care for myself.”
“The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.”

Source : Allan Aubrey Boesak (1978). “Black theology, black power”
“Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.”

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