"This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun."

-- Anais Nin

#Yield Quotes #Air Quotes #Sun Quotes

“The truth seems to love the small print.”
“The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.”

Source : Alice Bag (2011). “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story”, p.348, Feral House
“People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.”
“Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.”
“You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There's a nasty vibe between the chicks in the club. It's like a pretty girl can't look at another pretty girl and say Wow she's pretty.”
“I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.”
“Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.”

Source : Brian Wilson Aldiss (1995). “The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy”, p.72, Syracuse University Press
“I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.”

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