"I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed."

-- Stephenie Meyer

“The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.”
“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”

Source : Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
“The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.”
“Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”
“I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.”
“I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.”

Source : "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.
“The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.”

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