"But I do enjoy wordsâ€”some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they representâ€”"

-- Alasdair Gray

#Rivers Quotes #Dawn Quotes #Daylight Quotes

“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
“Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.”
“I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.”
“All of what the government said is lies upon lies.”
“Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.”
“The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.”
“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.”
“I eat my heart out alone.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.214, Random House

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