"We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death."

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Sam Tanenhaus

#Mean Quotes #Promise Quotes #Demand Quotes

“It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion”
“A life without rain is like the sun without shade.”

Source : Karen White (2012). “After the Rain”, p.79, Penguin
“If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.”
“I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.”
“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.”
“I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”
“British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.”
“There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.”

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