"Lend.â€ â€œLend?â€ Raquel asked. â€œYes, as in, lend me your self.â€ He shimmered into Raquel again. â€œWhy not Borrow?â€ I asked. â€œBetter yet, Steal?"

-- Kiersten White

#Self Quotes #Why Not Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”
“Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is cutting timber good or bad? And I don't feel like the answers to those questions are simple, so we don't try to answer them for the audience. I wanted to elicit the strongest - and most heartfelt - arguments from the characters in the film and let those arguments bang up against the strongest arguments of their opponents.”
“Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.”
“In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.”
“One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could... we have to... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference.”
“The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.”
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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