"Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Rejection Quotes #May Quotes

“The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.”
“But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects”
“There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.”
“Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.”
“Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.”
“To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.”
“Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 273), 1979.
“I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.”

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