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“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”
Source : Michelle Tea (1998). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext(e)
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“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.”
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“Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.”
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“There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.”
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“Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.”
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“Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.”
Source : Henry Martyn Robert, Robert Gen (1982). “Roberts Rule of Order”, Jove
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“An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.”
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“London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.”
Source : Soseki Natsume (2011). “Spring Miscellany: And London Essays”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing
