"suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive."

-- June Jordan

#Suicide Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Americans like fat books and thin women.”
“I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from May 14, 2012
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”
“What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?”
“It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.”
“While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.”
“He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.”
“Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.”

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