"You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts."

-- John Fowles

#Voice Quotes #Choices Quotes #Speak Quotes

“There's no harm in a child crying: the harm is done only if his cries aren't answered. ...If you ignore a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him ndependence... What you teach him is that no other human being will take care of his needs”
“Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.”
“I like eating pepperoni. I heat it up in the microwave and then I let it roast and then I eat it with cheese.”
“A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.”
“My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.”
“America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.”
“To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.”

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