“For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.”
Gao Xingjian
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted ..”
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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde
“History is written by the victors.”
Winston Churchill
“I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
