"One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky."

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Source : Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.67, University of Chicago Press

Edmond Jabes

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“A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.”
“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.”
“But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.”
“We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.”

Source : "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.
“I've been going to chiropractor for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing.”
“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...”

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