"I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is."

-- Tea Obreht

#Animal Quotes #Trying Quotes #Process Quotes

“I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.”
“Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.”
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
“We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.”

Source : "Mavis Staples Interview: Staple Singers, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and that one time in Memphis". Interview with Ed Masley, www.azcentral.com. March 1, 2017.
“People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.”
“The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.”

Source : Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”
“I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.”
“Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.”

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