"The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Lying Quotes #Blow Quotes #Fog Quotes

“When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.”
“Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.”
“The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.”
“People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.”
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
“The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.”
“When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.”
“There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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