"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."

-- Jose Saramago

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“People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.”
“If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage,”
“There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.”

Source : "Susan Minot's Torrid World of Individual Desire" by Will Blythe, www.elle.com. January 28, 2014.
“Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.”
“Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life.”
“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
“Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.”

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