"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings."

-- Franklin A. Thomas

#Freedom Quotes #Eye Quotes #Unique Quotes

“If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'”
“There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.”
“I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.”
“My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”
“To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own”
“Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.”
“Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.”
“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”

Source : Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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