"Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.”
“I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.”
“The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.”

Source : "The Joy of Six: great Wimbledon finals" by Scott Murray, Paul Doyle, Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2013.
“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.”

Source : Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company
“Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .”
“We were searching for ourselves in each other.”
“Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.”
“I'll say life is simpler.”

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