"If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity."

-- Steven Morrissey

#Identity Quotes #Germany Quotes #Sweden Quotes

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
“Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.”
“I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.”
“There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.”
“Truth is so difficult to hear about. It must be experienced.”
“No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.”

Source : Song: Ready To Meet Him, Album: Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
“When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.”
“Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.97, Broadway Books

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