#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes
“Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?”
“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.”
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
“You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.”
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“Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.”
“I'm a tomboy. I love shooting guns and running around.”
“If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.”
“I'm attracted to heartbreakers.”
Anais Nin Author
Charles Simic Poet
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Henry Miller Writer
James Salter Novelist
Jorie Graham Poet
Sappho Lyric poet
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