"It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt."

-- Betty Smith

#Pain Quotes #Simple Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.”
“We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.”
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people.”
“I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.”
“I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.”
“I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.”

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