"To change your language you must change your life."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.83, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

#Life Quotes #Language Quotes #Changing Your Life Quotes

“Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.”
“The goal of the future is full unemployment”

Source : "Los Angeles Free Press" Interview, (pp. p. 42-43, 47), April 25, 1969.
“I just want to conquer people and their souls.”
“First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.”
“For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.”
“The American people want to have trust in their leaders.”
“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality -- to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”
“Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.”

Source : "Judith Crist, a Blunt and Influential Film Critic, Dies at 90". Interview With Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. August 7, 2012.

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