"People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place."

-- Richard Misrach

#Photography Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me.”

Source : Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.”
“All men are rapists and that's all they are”

Source : TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)
“You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.”
“In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.”
“Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.”
“For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.”

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