"The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say."

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Source : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1976). “My sister, life and other poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Boris Pasternak

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“My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.”
“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”
“For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.”
“Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.”
“Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.”

Source : "Liz Cheney: We Must Unify Behind Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2016.
“The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.”

Source : "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.
“Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.”

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