"Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive."

-- Larry Kramer

#Writing Quotes #Views Quotes #Seductive Quotes

“Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.”
“Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.”
“US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.”
“I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.”
“All of us are better when we're loved.”

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2012). “To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story”, p.48, McClelland & Stewart
“Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?”
“I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.”
“There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.”

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