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Bertolt Brecht

"The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer."

-- Bertolt Brecht

#Summer Quotes #Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes

“The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.”
“Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?”
“My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.”
“Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.”
“I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.”
“It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.”
“The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.”
“If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (2005). “Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke”, p.146, David R. Godine Publisher

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