"But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talkâ€¦"

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Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.71, LSU Press

Keri Hulme

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.
“Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”
“We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.428, Macmillan
“[he brend] gotta be with my fashion I gotta be comfortable with it and want to wear it more than anyone else. So that's really my main objective when it comes to that.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”
“I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.”
“As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.”
“Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.”

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