"I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger."

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Juan Goytisolo

#Land Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.”
“Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.”
“Enjoy your life, fashion is not that important.”
“There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.”

Source : Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.105, Oxford University Press
“Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.503, Simon and Schuster
“We knew from the beginning the level of commitment needed. We felt honored to work with Stanley Kubrick. We were going to do what it took to do this picture, whatever time, because I felt - and Nic [Nicole Kidman] did, too - that this was going to be a really special time for us. We knew it would be difficult. But I would have absolutely kicked myself if I hadn`t done this.”
“Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda.”

Source : Henry Blackaby (2006). “Called to Be God's Leader: How God Prepares His Servants for Spiritual Leadership”, p.146, Thomas Nelson Inc
“But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.”

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