"Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary..."

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Source : 'Good Morning, Midnight' (1939) pt. 1

Jean Rhys

#Sacrifice Quotes #Laughing Quotes #May Quotes

“The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.”
“I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.”
“Stop trying to figure it out. I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle. Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together. And I like that because, ultimately, I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.”

Source : "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.148, Harvard University Press
“The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.”
“the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.72, Clear Press Ltd
“I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.”

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