"Words are all we have."

--

Samuel Beckett

“Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

Source : "Brave, Brainy, Changeable - Zadie Smith Revealed" by Heller McAlpin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.
“It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ...”
“The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,”
“I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.”
“Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.”
“My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.”
“Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.”

Source : "The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations". Book by David Milsted, 1999.

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