"In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."

-- J. L. Austin

#Responsibility Quotes #Reality Quotes #Defense Quotes

“We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.”
“All human eyes have longing in them.”

Source : Ernesto Cardenal (1981). “Love”, Crossroad Publishing Company
“So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.”
“The art of making art, is putting it together....”

Source : "Sunday in the Park with George". Musical by Stephen Sondheim, May 2, 1984.
“I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.”
“Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”
“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.”
“The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.”

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