"What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?"

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Source : Yiyun Li (2009). “The Vagrants: A Novel”, p.314, Random House

Yiyun Li

#Way Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Alive Quotes

“While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.”
“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”
“The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.”

Source : Leston Havens (1996). “A Safe Place”, p.86, Harvard University Press
“You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesnâ€™t work that way.”
“Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.”
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.”
“Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, itâ€™s just cheap.”
“I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?”

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