"I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike."

-- Chris Crutcher

#Book Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?”
“If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.”
“There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.”
“Art is a kind of illness.”
“The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.”
“I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris
“Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.”
“Well, normally Iâ€™m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.â€ â€” Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)”

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