"Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation."

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Source : "The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.

William Moulton Marston

#Self Quotes #Water Quotes #Desert Quotes

“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.”
“I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.”
“The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?”
“I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
“Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.”
“I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.”
“The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.46, Columbia University Press

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