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I am a moralist. I worry.


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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.



If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.



The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.



Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.



There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.



There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.



If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.



In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.



All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.



Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.





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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

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And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.

And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.



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This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.




With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.



It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.



The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.



I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way.

I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way.




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