"I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland."

-- Gustave de Beaumont

#Country Quotes #May Quotes #Saws Quotes

“The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.”
“I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.”
“Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,”

Source : The Irish Times, April 19, 2003.
“It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.”
“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”
“It is all here. You make the choice.”

Source : "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 1997.
“The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk that sends you reeling, the way someone hums when she is alone. My father said it was the way my mother danced with him.”
“We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”

Source : Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK

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