"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words."

-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”
“While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.”
“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".”
“In the current situation with criminalization, we've created situations where sex workers have very little power and control over their lives. Increasing one group of women's power and control over their lives does not take anything away from other women. When a woman's value has been constructed as keeping a man and keeping him faithful, then when he's not we've been taught to internalize that there's something wrong with us.”
“We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.”

Source : Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.186, Ballantine Books
“I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.”

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