"I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage."

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Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

Carolina Maria de Jesus

#Garden Quotes #Cities Quotes #Office Quotes

“Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.”
“The Maier woman is not a woman who doesn't have fun. My woman is not a woman who doesn't have a life. I like clothes to suggest something. I'm gay, but so what? I still have that sensibility that I like to look at a beautiful woman, and I'm as intrigued as any straight man. I probably look even harder because I like what you don't see.”
“Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.44
“I have my fashion empire to build.”
“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
“If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.”
“You can't spell Citrus without UT”
“When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.”

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