"Iâ€™d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free."

--

Mohammad Hatta

#Book Quotes #Long Quotes #Volunteer Quotes

“I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.”
“You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.”
“I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.”
“I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?”
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.”
“I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!”
“Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”

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