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“If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.”
Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81
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“We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.”
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“That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.”
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“Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. Â I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. Â If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”
Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?”
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“Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.”
Source : Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.122, Cambridge University Press
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“It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.”
