"Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong."

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Source : Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Richard Wright

#Believe Quotes #Character Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.”
“How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.”

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“The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.”
“No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I donâ€™t know what else I have to do to prove to you that I wonâ€™t let you down again. I wonâ€™t hurt you. You donâ€™t have to be alone anymore. I need you.”
“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?”
“My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.”
“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”
“When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.”

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