Robert Jackson Bennett quotes

“The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2013). “American Elsewhere”, p.359, Hachette UK

#Voice Quotes

“Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

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“Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

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“Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.42, Broadway Books

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“The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.92, Broadway Books

“I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.429, Broadway Books

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“We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books

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“No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.”
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

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“I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.”

“I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.”

“Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

“He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.”

“Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.”

“I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.”

“When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.”

“I have a pretty lousy voice.”