"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."

-- Sylvia Plath

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“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.”

Source : Bret Harte (1887). “The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of "The Two Men of Sandy Bar", of Bret Harte ...”
“I hate making TV documentaries.”
“It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.”
“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
“This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.”

Source : R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage
“As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.”

Source : "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.
“We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.”
“The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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