"We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me."

-- Ernest Gaines

#Eye Quotes #Dying Quotes #Fool Quotes

“True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.”
“If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.”
“As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2010). “Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope”, p.34, Metropolitan Books
“Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.”
“All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.”
“The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!”
“The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.”

Source : "Existence". Essay by Joanna Russ (1975) in antology "Epoch" edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg (p. 283), October 1975.
“We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.”

Source : O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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