"Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would."

-- Suzanne Vega

#Writing Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?”

Source : "Jourdan Dunn first black British model to enter Forbes rich list" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2014.
“As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.”

Source : James Howard Kunstler (1993). “The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape”
“There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing and suddenly you look at them completely differently.”
“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”
“The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.”
“I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, â€œWell, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.â€ I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”
“Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.”
“When Death laughs, no one else does”

Source : Amy Neftzger (2014). “The Orchard of Hope”, p.80, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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