"I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past"

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Eduardo Galeano

#Past Quotes #Scrapbooking Quotes #Remember Quotes

“It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.”
“I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort of movement. It's usually motivated by wishing to dominate other people.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.”
“A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.”
“As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.”
“The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications
“I'm just different. There are a handful of different types of genre of music that I would love to just jump into and people don't realize that I'm really good at those things. They just know me as Tony Sunshine, the guy that sang the hooks for Terror Squad.”
“PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!”

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