"The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. â€”Bobby Goodspeed"

-- James Howe

#Winning Quotes #Names Quotes #Be Who You Are Quotes

“Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique.”
“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.”
“Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.”
“Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done”
“It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.”
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.95, Macmillan

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