"What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Past Quotes #Giving Quotes #Locks Quotes

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
“It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.”
“I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.”
“To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be ***** is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.”
“An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.”
“Society, like nature, is one body, really.”
“Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.”

Source : "Don’t Write What You Know". www.theatlantic.com. August 2011.
“Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.”

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