"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."

-- Toni Morrison

#Smile Quotes #People Quotes #Annoyed Quotes

“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.”
“Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)”
“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”
“What are we out at the park for except to win?”
“In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.”
“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.64, 谷月社
“Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”

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