"To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday."

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Yiyun Li

#Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes #Someday Quotes

“Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.”
“...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
“I promised myself as a kid that I would not become that guy. So I have my finger on the pulse of what is going on and I love relevant music today. We are talking about artists like Kendrick Lamar, School Boy Q, Absoul, that whole crew. Of course Evidence and Alchemist, those guys are my brothers and I love those guys, they have been lifelong friends but I have always sort of looked up to them artistically.”
“Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.”
“My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.”
“I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.”

Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”
“It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.”

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