"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Telling The Truth Quotes #Assignments Quotes

“My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.”
“I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.”
“Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.”
“My approach has always been rather sensual.”
“Generosity is more charitable than wealth.”
“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.91, 谷月社
“There is no such place as away.”

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