"One isnâ€™t born oneâ€™s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other peopleâ€™s ideas â€“ and you have to work through it all."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.”
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.”
“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”
“That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden”
“Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.”
“I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.”
“The reaction you got was the communication you intended.”
“He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?”

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