Mrozek Quotes & Sayings

Come with me and take back your lives! — Eric Mrozek

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'. — Emma Goldman

Death's door. "McKINLEY IS DYING," read the large headline — David McCullough

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy. — Nicky Hilton

What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,
but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it.
We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a
surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent — G.K. Chesterton

Cover your eyes girls! This movie might show breasts. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

The Troll was well over seven feet tall, and smelled of body odour and Germolene. — Andrew Barrett

Adrian Mole's diary
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Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself. — Sue Townsend

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness. — Mary McCarthy

Up on the Magdalen Islands, eight crew members from the Sea Shepherd sprayed more than a thousand seal pups with a harmless but permanent red dye. This dye was designed to ruin their pelts and save the pups from hunters. The activists were arrested and, in pitch-perfect Orwellian double-speak, charged with violating the Seal Protection Act. — Karen Joy Fowler

Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. — Yuval Noah Harari

The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As — Anne Rice

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative. — Alfred Kazin

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. — Brian K. Vaughan

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both. — Eric Mrozek

Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are the architects of human souls and the critics are the architects of the writer's souls. — Slawomir Mrozek

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images. — Vija Celmins

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective. — Margaret Heffernan

Art educates. That's why writers must know life ... If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness may lag behind. — Slawomir Mrozek

After I finished, there was quite a long period of silence as I watched a smile spread all the way across Augustus's face - not the little crooked smile of the boy trying to be sexy while he stared at me, but his real smile, too big for his face. "Goddamn," Augustus said quietly. "Aren't you something else. — John Green