"I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience."

-- Jonathan Carroll

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.”
“Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.”
“Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.”
“Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that the thinking particular to poetry is essential to my life. I need to think, to explore, to question, in poetry. Without that feeling, I am, in some ultimate way, lost.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'”

Source : "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”

Source : "Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit". Book by Richard Bach, 1994.
“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.”
“Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity.”

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