Quotes About Independence

Mi ricordo che un giorno ricevetti una lettera furibonda da un tale il quale sosteneva che non avevo diritto di dire che Shakespeare non mi piace. Troppi giovani mi avrebbero creduto senza nemmeno darsi la pena di leggere Shakespeare. Non avevo diritto di affermare una cosa simile. E così via. Non gli ho mai risposto. Lo faccio adesso. Fottiti amico. E non mi piace nemmeno Tolstoj.

Nunca estoy solo. Lo mejor es estar solo, pero no del todo.

Que sonho bom: nunca mais olhar na cara de outro ser humano.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough

I got into bed, opened the bottle, worked the pillow into a hard knot behind my back, took a deep breath, and sat in the dark looking out of the window. It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine.

I wasn't interested in world history, only my own. What crap. Your parents controlled your growing-up period, they pissed all over you. Then when you got ready to go out on your own, the others wanted to stick you into a uniform so you could get your ass shot off.

Si hubiera nacido mujer seguro que hubiera sido una prostituta. Como había nacido hombre, anhelaba constantemente mujeres, cuanto más guarras mejor. Y sin embargo las mujeres, las buenas mujeres, me daban miedo porque a veces querían tu alma, y lo poco que quedaba de la mía, quería conservarlo para mí. Básicamente deseaba prostitutas, porque eran duras, sin esperanzas, y no pedían nada personal. Nada se perdía cuando ellas se iban.

I have a special ring-system that must work before I will pick up my phone. I am not a snob: it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do-mostly with my time.

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness

I felt better being alone.

Nadie puede salvarte sino tú mismo y mereces salvarte. No es una guerra fácil de ganar. pero si algo merece la pena ganar es esto

your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.

Tus padres no te dan mucho cariño, ¿verdad? -No me hace falta - dije. -Henry, todo el mundo necesita cariño. -Yo no necesito nada.

It was best to stay away from other writers and just do your work…

Attenti a quelli che cercano continuamente la folla, da soli non sono nessuno.

baÅŸkalar? bana, allah aÅŸk?na, Hank, ne buluyorsun bu herifte? diye sorduklar?nda, hey, benim kahraman?m o, herkesin mutlaka bir kahraman? olmal?, derim. koca adam purolar?n? tüttürmeye ve içmeye devam eder. iÅŸemeye bile kalkmaz, kalkmas? gerekmez, zahmete deÄŸmez.

Cuidado com os que sempre procuram multidões; eles não são nada sozinhos

Africans themselves controlled the supply of African slaves, selling them to Europeans in the numbers they chose at prices they negotiated as equals. To be sure, Europeans tried to play off slavers against each other to get lower prices. But Africans played off European buyers against each other, too, captain against captain, nation against nation.

Man minus the machine is a slave," proclaimed Henry Ford, touting his new tractor. "Man plus the machine is a free man.

such absolute Notions of Liberty, that they allow of no Kind of Superiority of one over another, and banish all Servitude from their Territories.

No doubt as long as man and all other animals are viewed as independent creations, an effectual stop is put to our natural desire to investigate as far as possible the causes of Expression.

In Switzerland the slaves and masters work together