"The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all you get is people pusillanimously Favoriting and Liking and Friending. Why is there no Hate button? Why?"

-- Helen DeWitt

#Hate Quotes #Reading Quotes #People Quotes

“I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.”
“Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You ***** ain't in the South.”
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”

Source : Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

Source : Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784
“I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.”
“My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a wall and leaves a mark. Then I'm someone else, who 10 days later leaves another mark. Someone was angry and did this, and then someone came and painted over it, and then the sun bleached it out and the weather exposed it again.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural parenting talents that each of you has, you may inadvertently cast the two of you into the skewed but complementary roles of the Expert and the Dumb Apprentice.”

Source : Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press
“Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.”

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