"We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so."

-- Albert Camus

#Common Quotes #Misery Quotes #Speak Quotes

“The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.”
“We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”
“Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.”

Source : "Right Time, Right Place, Right Move, Right Now!". Book by Perry W. Buffington, Section I : Life, 1992.
“When I have an idea, I share it with everyone. People say someone will steal my idea, but it's not like I invented something that will replace the toilet. I tell people to get their feedback. Will they buy it, help me improve it, or tell me it's already been done? If someone else is excited, he or she might buy into the business.”
“[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.”
“Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.”
“In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.”
“True love can exist only in freedom from possession.”

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