"To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views."

-- C. Vann Woodward

#War Quotes #Views Quotes #Expression Quotes

“We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.”
“For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.”
“My current project was shot on film, and because of that I've spent my entire day removing dust-specks from negatives. You wouldn't have to do that on digital because you don't get dust on the scanner. I say to myself, "Why am I doing this all day?" I could have just bought a digital camera and I wouldn't have to remove dust-specks ever again. But when you move closer to a film image, it has a real truth to it. And I really like that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.”
“Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.”
“An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.”

Source : Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”
“I want to be famous but unknown!”
“I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.”

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