"I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Mean Quotes #Choices Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.”
“The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.”
“I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.”

Source : "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.
“I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.”
“And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.”
“But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.”
“Donâ€™t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together.”
“I suspect victims; they win in the long run.”

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