"I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do."

-- Edward Albee

#Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes #Gains Quotes

“The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.”
“The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.”
“For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.”
“A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.”
“Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?”
“There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.”

Source : "Battles rage across West Bank", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2002.
“Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.”
“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.”

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