"Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead."

-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

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“In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.”
“I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.”
“I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.”
“I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever before beheld. They are broad and dense and bright green. In the leafy bowers and caves of their long branches dwell magnificent avenues of shade, and every tree seems to be blessed with a double portion of strong exulting life.”
“A great competitor, and someone who I think Indian cricket owes a lot to,”
“We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.”
“Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.”
“If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu's speech at the conference of the AFEF in Limoges, October 30, 1977.

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