“A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice, lest you jeopardise your chances of self-promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts and, before you know where you are, you’re a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high. It entails the loss of your dignity and human spirit. Or as Christ puts it, ‘What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?’”
—JIMMY REID. UK labor leader.
November 2010
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“You write who you are and what you know. But you also cheat and you write what you want to be. It’s a little embarrassing, sometimes, to be the guy that made the movie, knowing that I’m not exactly what I want to be.”
—Paul Thomas Anderson (via kindofiguess)
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oh no, oh my: “We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into... →
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“We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s…
“It’s not like I changed on purpose. But…doing things here makes you more interested in life in general. I can point out things that my friends never saw.”
—sometimes my notes have quotes that i think are just beautiful.
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Advice to journalists from Gay Talese →
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“This is what I tell students: You should be proud of your profession because there’s less lying in journalism than in any other profession. They lie in education, they lie in politics, they lie in banking, they lie in labor; there’s liars all over the place. Sports? Full of liars. And there are liars in journalism, but if there are liars, journalism will out them. They do. When you’re Jason Blair, the New York Times pointed the finger and got rid of him. They got rid of the editor. This is integrity. So be proud. Dress up. What you’re doing is more important that the trillionaire who is running the society ball this year or some movie star.”
