"If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible"

-- Octavia Butler

#Air Quotes #Desire Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.”
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.”
“Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?”
“As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.”

Source : Ben Bradlee (2011). “A Good Life”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
“I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.”
“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”

Source : "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.
“Human dignity should be without borders.”
“We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.”

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