Mapplethorpe Wiki Quotes & Sayings

If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers. — Saadat Hasan Manto

But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't make things fair. It doesn't fill our stomachs. In fact it scares off nearby game. — Suzanne Collins

I sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I'd once cared about had worked in anadvertising agency over there. Sometimes, when the sun came at them from a different angle, I could see through the windows across the street and watch her moving about her office. Agency was gone now. Maybe the whole building was gone, replaced by a new one. It was hard to remember. — Robert B. Parker

I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene. — Margaret Atwood

Let's fly," he said. — Khaled Hosseini

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system. — Ozzie Guillen

Strong people don't put others down. they lift them up. — Michael Watson

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality. — Paramahansa Yogananda