quotes about Fine Things

“You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.”

“It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.”

“I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.”

Source : Source: www.mediaite.com

“I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.”

“The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.”

“My greatest fear: repetition.”

Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.”

“Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.”

Source : "Liz Meriwether: Beginning and End of the Fempire". Interview with Kate Branch, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 17, 2010.

“Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?”

Source : Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.113, Xulon Press

“Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”