"Everything is acting."

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Marilyn Manson

“It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.”

Source : "Chest Deep in Southern Literature: A Conversation with Daniel Woodrell". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. May 20, 2013.
“The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.”
“I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.”
“Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
“Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.”
“The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”
“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

Source : Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press
“...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.”

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