"Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell."

-- Katori Hall

#Hate Quotes #Passion Quotes #Hell Quotes

“I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the lazy, easy traditional narrative - which is controlled by the publishing industry - roll all over the readers and dominate the market. I think our readers and cinemagoers have been trained to read and watch very mainstream stuff. It's like being given sleeping pills. It sends people to a non-reflective sleep state.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.”
“Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.124, Broadview Press
“a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.”
“Have an attitude of positive expectation.”
“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
“I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.”
“You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad”

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