"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."

-- Octavio Paz

#Expression Quotes #History Quotes #Missing Quotes

“I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”

Source : Don Winslow (2012). “Savages: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
“I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.”
“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better”
“In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.”
“So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.”
“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.”
“Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.”

Source : "Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler" by Philipp von Boeselager, Hachette UK, April 16, 2009.
“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”

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