Quotes
Authors
Kurt Vonnegut

"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.”
“[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”
“Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.”
“I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.”

Source : "Noel Clarke: 'The films that I've written and directed aren't necessarily the kind I like watching'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
“I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.”

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