"I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience."

-- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,”
“If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.”
“It is impossible to have progress without conscience”
“I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?”
“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 334), 1984.
“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”
“Mick Foley has gone from being a hardcore legend to a cuddly teddy bear.”
“There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.”

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