"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

-- Jacques Lacan

#Writing Quotes #Wind Quotes #Flying Quotes

“That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.”
“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”
“To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.”
“Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.”
“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”
“Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”
“The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'.”
“People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.”

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