"I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about."

-- Blake Bailey

#Oklahoma Quotes #Ethos Quotes #Class Quotes

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”
“[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.”

Source : Ira Berlin (2009). “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America”, p.5, Harvard University Press
“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe”
“Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.”
“They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it.”
“Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.”
“Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....”
“People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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