Quotes
Authors
Richard Foreman

"I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'"

-- Richard Foreman

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“My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.”
“I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.”
“When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.”
“The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.”
“You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.”
“Maybe you think youâ€™ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesnâ€™t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. Itâ€™s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
“Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.184, Open Road Media
“Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost ***** smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.”

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