"Contempt mates well with pity."

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Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Linden Hills: A Novel”, p.26, Open Road Media

Gloria Naylor

#Disrespect Quotes #Pity Quotes #Mates Quotes

“Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!”
“How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it.”
“This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.”
“If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.”

Source : Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com
“I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.”

Source : "Change". Booklet by Katherine Hunt, issuu.com. March 28, 2012.
“I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.
“We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.”
“To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.”

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