"Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence."

-- Clarice Lispector

#Reality Quotes #Silence Quotes #One Day Quotes

“On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.”
“Love is proved in the letting go.”

Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.14, Stanford University Press
“If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.”
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”

Source : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
“What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old came bumming around. He was looking for something. He found it too. I took him out to a gravel pit about one quarter miles away. I left him there, but first committed sodomy on him and then killed him. His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him, and he will never be any deader.”
“If somebody trusts me, then I will reciprocate.”
“I've always tried to vote my conscience.”

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