"Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?"

-- Sylvia Plath

#Mother Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.”
“I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.”
“And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?”

Source : Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003.
“If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.”
“If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann mÃ¼ssen sie Deutsch sprechen.”
“I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.”
“I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!”
“For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.”

Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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