"There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you."

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Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.219, Macmillan

Joan Slonczewski

#Bitterness Quotes

“If you can't keep quiet, shut up!”
“Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.”

Source : "Crystal Castles". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 8, 2012.
“I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.”
“He only profits from praise who values criticism.”
“The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.”

Source : Carl Andre, University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery (1979). “Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley”
“My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for themselves and their family and friends - should not depend on accident of birth. It shouldn't depend on where you're born. It should depend on who you are and what you do. But it shouldn't depend on the chance and the luck of being born in the U.S. or in a poor village in Sub-Saharan Africa or India or wherever it may be.”
“And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.”
“Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.”

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