"I took my sight and mobility for granted."

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Sue Townsend

#Sight Quotes #Mobility Quotes #Granted Quotes

“What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.”
“We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.”
“I will open an era of grand national unity.”
“The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.”

Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
“I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”
“Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be
“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
“In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

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