"This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day."

-- Anne Lamott

#Cain Quotes #Earth Quotes #Abel Quotes

“Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.”
“I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children”
“Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.”
“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.”
“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament”
“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”

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