"You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it."

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Patrick Ness

#Men Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.”
“More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.”
“In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.”

Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
“Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?”
“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”
“If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.”
“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.”
“I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. It's a great network. It's the golden network of cable, so it's totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.”

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