"I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?"

-- Ralph Ellison

#Denial Quotes #Invisibility Quotes #Way Quotes

“Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.”
“And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior...”
“Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail
“There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.”

Source : Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.”

Source : Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage
“Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.”
“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”

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