"Always stay in your own movie."

-- Ken Kesey

#Independence Quotes

“Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.”
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”
“We live in a world filled with language. Language impartsÂ identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community.Â Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“Time takes all and gives all”
“For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?”
“... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.120, Penguin
“There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along....”

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