"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

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Manuel Puig

#Beauty Quotes #Theme Quotes

“People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!”
“Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.”
“The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.”
“The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
“I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.”

Source : "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.
“Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.”
“I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.”
“What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?”

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