"Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues."

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Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Selfish Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Long Quotes

“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”
“One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable (though it is bad). But rude language cannot be forgiven.”
“Married to the game. If we're dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.”
“I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.”

Source : "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.
“What a blessing it is to love books.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim
“You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State . The atmosphere reminded me of a word it was â€™democracy.â€™”
“The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.”
“In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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