Quotes about other

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Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: Cat's Eye

Source: Postcards from the Edge

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

Source: The Golden Notebook

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Source: Magic Bites

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Source: The Lovely Bones

Source: A Scandal in Bohemia

Source: The Great Gatsby

Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules

Source: The Price of Salt

Source: The Invention of Wings

Source: Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited

Source: The Diviners

Source: Skin Trade

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Source: The Marriage Plot

Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

Source: Cosmopolis

Source: Rising Strong

Source: 1Q84

Source: Mastery

Source: Microserfs

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Source: A Dark Kiss of Rapture

Source: Venetia

Source: The Silent Language

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Variant: Are You Living or Just Existing?"

-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys

p. 12.
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory, p. 13-14.
Context: Recent focus on the issue of racism has generated discourse but has had little impact on the behavior of white feminists towards black women. Often the white women who are busy publishing papers and books on "unlearning racism" remain patronizing and condescending when they relate to black women. This is not surprising given that frequently their discourse is aimed solely in the direction of a white audience and the focus solely on changing attitudes rather than addressing racism in a historical and political context. They make us the "objects" of their privileged discourse on race. As "objects," we remain unequals, inferiors. Even though they may be sincerely concerned about racism, their methodology suggests they are not yet free of the type of remain intact if they are to maintain their authoritative positions.
Context: Racist stereotypes of the strong, superhuman black woman are operative myths in the minds of many white women, allowing them to ignore the extent to which black women are likely to be victimized in this society and the role white women may play in the maintenance and perpetuation of that victimization.... By projecting onto black women a mythical power and strength, white women both promote a false image of themselves as powerless, passive victims and deflect attention away from their aggressiveness, their power, (however limited in a white supremacist, male-dominated state) their willingness to dominate and control others. These unacknowledged aspects of the social status of many white women prevent them from transcending racism and limit the scope of their understanding of women's overall social status in the United States. Privileged feminists have largely been unable to speak to, with, and for diverse groups of women because they either do not understand fully the inter-relatedness of sex, race, and focus on class and gender, they tend to dismiss race or they make a point of acknowledging that race is important and then proceed to offer an analysis in which race is not considered.

Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight

Source: The Farming of Bones

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: Diamonds Are Forever

Source: Message in a Bottle

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: The White Queen

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

Source: Finding Audrey

Source: Valley of Silence

Source: Gone Girl

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: Never Let Me Go

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: A Place Called Here

A Long Way from The Stuffed Cabbage (short story)
Source: 终於悲哀的外國語
Context: Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. In my case, the stronger is the intention to "write about a particular subject in a particular way," the harder it becomes to start writing and to express myself. This stress somewhat resembles the irritation one feels when he cannot describe to another person what he experienced so vividly and realistically in his dreams. All words I use to narrate my feeling of the moment fail incessantly to describe what I wish to, and then they begin to betray me.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), as quoted in Milan Kundera (2003) by Harold Bloom, [//books.google.it/books?id=SXDojRJFMPIC&pg=PA91 p. 91]
Context: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Source: Written on the Body

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: The Notebook

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13.

Source: The Way of Kings

Source: And the Shofar Blew

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Source: Faking It

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Source: Uglies

Source: Dark Reunion

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Source: Cosmos