"Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea."

-- Jack Kerouac

#Eye Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Sea Quotes

“There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.”
“My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.â€â€¢ General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa â€œAt the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?”
“This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading--all at the same time.”
“Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.”
“When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.”

Source : Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan
“What I'm talking about is pre-suasion, directing their minds to the moment before they experience the content. There's this interesting study. A guy goes to a shopping mall in France. And he tries to get women's phone numbers as they pass various shops, so he could call for a date. But in neither of those cases was he very successful. He only got a number 13 percent of the time. But there was one kind of shop that doubled his success rate when women were passing it, a flower shop. Why? Because flowers put women in the mind-set of romance.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.”

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