"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Art Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.”
“Pitches are like wives, you never know how they're going to turn out.”
“Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?”

Source : Thomas Campion (1889). “The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion”
“For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.”
“Don't learn safety by accident.”
“Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship”
“Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.”
“There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.”

Source : "Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 38, 1971.

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