"I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead."

-- Katherine Mansfield

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“Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.”
“When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.”
“If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end”

Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.38, Palgrave Macmillan
“The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.”
“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.”
“I am at war with the obvious.”

Source : William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Hasselblad Center (1999). “William Eggleston”

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