"Circumstances are the seeds of literature."

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Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

Salvador de Madariaga

#Literature Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.”
“More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.”
“I'm the kind of person who, as much as I like clothes in real life because it's a fun expression of who you are and everybody kind of enjoys wearing things that make them...well, in movies you're wearing things that aren't necessarily the things you would choose to put on or wear.”
“I'd like my life back.”

Source : "BP goes on PR offensive". "Nightly News" with Lisa Myers, www.nbcnews.com. June 3, 2010.
“Don't use big words. They mean so little.”
“But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.”
“I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.”
“I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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