"Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Substance Quotes #Weight Quotes #Gravity Quotes

“And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.”
“Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.”
“Politics is activity in relation to power”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.238, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.”
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery”
“All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.”
“A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.”

Source : "Indonesia's 'slow motion genocide'" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2010.
“Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.”

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