"She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone."

-- Richard Yates

#Aunt Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Parent Quotes

“You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.”
“Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon.”
“I was not going to be an actor. I was an engineer in physics. That's what I did: I graduated with a physics degree, and I had become a little bit distressed that I'd have to work for somebody - anybody! And I thought, "I'm not going to make a mark on anything. If I can't express myself, then I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with this life." I think it was just one of those germs that said, "No, no, no, you've got to say things. You've got to tell people things. You've got to express your opinion in this life, because that's how you started."”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.”

Source : "Interview: Garth Ennis And Aaron Campbell on Bringing 'The Shadow' To Dynamite". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. January 19, 2012.
“My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.”
“A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.”
“You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”
“I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.”

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