"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise."

-- Anais Nin

#Self Quotes #Needs Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.”

Source : Comment to his brother Allen. Quoted in Peter Grose Gentleman Spy (1994).
“We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.”

Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.351, A&C Black
“By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.”

Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”
“I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that; I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.”
“I really think that people are getting fed up with the computer generated music. I think it had a little time where it was new and it kind of worked, but it's so overdone that people are getting sick of it, and are turning back to real music.”
“Stand up - above the crowd. Even if you've gotta shout out loud!”
“Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and too complex to go into here at this time, the Zionists and their co-religionists rule these United States as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country. Now you may say that is a very broad statement, but let me show you what happened while we were all asleep.”

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