"Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it."

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Source : Chaim Potok (2010). “The Gift of Asher Lev”, p.240, Ballantine Books

Chaim Potok

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.”
“Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.”
“God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?”
“The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.”
“We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.”
“I just voted for Jesse Jackson !”
“We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.258, Random House

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