"The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name."

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Source : Observer 20 August (1978)

Maggie Kuhn

#Memorable Quotes #Names Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.”
“Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.”
“Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.”
“Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?”
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?”
“I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.”
“Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.”

Source : "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.
“Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2003). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, Anchor

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