"With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world."

-- Richard Peck

#Drama Quotes #World Quotes #Plain Speaking Quotes

“thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.”
“Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.”

Source : Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”
“As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.”
“When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.”
“Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.”
“We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.”
“To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
“What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1992). “The Ethics of Authenticity”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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