Golafshani 2003 Quotes

#1. The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tommy Smothers

#2. And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

Phoebe Cary

#3. One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done. I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion.

Bram Stoker

#5. The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.

James McBride

#6. If you find yourself caring about something, just remind yourself that you don't need to give a fuck. Caring is for nicegirls.

The Betches

#7. The only true source of politeness is consideration.

William Gilmore Simms

#8. As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

S.A. Tawks

#9. Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS.

Angela Carter