"The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences."

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Source : Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1999.

John Hockenberry

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“Work hard until hard work isn't work at all.”
“If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”
“On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero whoâ€™s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (donâ€™t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) heâ€™ll find the treasure.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House
“Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.”
“I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.”
“The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.”
“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.”

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