"It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set."

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W. Somerset Maugham

#Eye Quotes #Unconventional Quotes #World Quotes

“Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism”
“It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.165, D & M Publishers
“I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.”
“I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, letâ€™s fill that with sound.”
“We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.”
“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasnâ€™t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.8, Soft Skull Press
“How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”
“There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.”

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