"The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice."

-- Fay Weldon

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“Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday
“Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.”
“The work of art is above all a process of creation.”
“What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.”
“The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.”
“In fact, there is no business; there are only people. Business exists only *among* people and *for* people.Seems simple enough, and it applies to every aspect of business, but not enough businesspeople seem to get it.Reading the economic forecasts and the indicators and the ratios and the rates for this or that, someone from another planet might actually believe that there really are invisible hands at work in the marketplace.”
“Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.”
“My advice to young women who are looking to be successful; make sure you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing. And make sure you're fulfilled by the opportunities within your job.”

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