"But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again."

-- Hubert Selby, Jr.

#Regret Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Two Quotes

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”

Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jun 17, 2011
“I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!”
“In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!”
“I always make sure thereâ€™s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.”
“Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.”

Source : alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”
“Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make.”

Source : "Rain in a Dry Land". "POV" Interview, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2007.
“Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.”
“Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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