"Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody."

-- Lawrence Wright

#Self Quotes #Journalism Quotes #Flawed Quotes

“But you canâ€™t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We donâ€™t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in â€“ then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.”
“When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we donâ€™t understand.”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!”
“I think if you're gonna get a tattoo, just get one: the words, 'I'm dumb.' That's it. That way in 10 years, when you go, 'Why did I get this?,' you can be like, 'Oh, I'm dumb!'”
“I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.”
“Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.”
“Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting”

Source : Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”
“It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.”

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