Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980):
“Hell is other people.”
and
“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your
pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
and
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
and
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in
books.”
Mary McCarthy (1912 – 1989):
“Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the
antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly
druggist.”
and
“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a
tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.”
Ian McEwan (1948 - ):
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn
and not easily mended.”
and
“When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll
suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
Anne Carson (1950 - ):
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want
to do and what they have to do.”
and
“What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.
With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to the bottom as a residue.
It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.”
Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007):
“Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a
vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease
fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of
sex, status, or belief.”
Edward Snowden (1983 - ):
“I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of
things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is
recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”
and
“A child born today will grow up with no conception of
privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to
themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because
privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we
want to be.”
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