"Ignoring isnâ€™t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Ignorance Quotes

“... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.”
“I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.”
“If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!”
“Whatever, I copied all through school, and look how well Iâ€™m doing today.”
“Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.”

Source : "Is Rick Owens the new Karl Lagerfeld?" by Rachel Holmes, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2009.
“The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.”
“Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1994). “Dawn Powell at Her Best”
“Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.”

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