"You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition."

-- Zadie Smith

#Strong Quotes #New York Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.”
“Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.”
“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.”
“Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno”
“I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,”

Source : "Nic Pizzolatto & HBO Refute ‘True Detective’ Plagiarism Claims" by Nellie Andreeva, deadline.com. August 7, 2014.
“Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.”
“One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.”

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