"The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world."

-- Luis Valdez

#Community Quotes #Library Quotes #Migrants Quotes

“When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.”

Source : Margery Williams Bianco, Margery Williams, Thea Kliros (1989). “The Velveteen Rabbit Coloring Book”, p.22, Courier Corporation
“C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.”
“I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.”
“I'm good at everything.”
“Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?”
“From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.”

Source : Georges Perec (2012). “Life: A User's Manual”, p.191, Random House
“Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.”
“It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.”

Source : "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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