Vicki Traverso > Vicki's Quotes

“A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.”
― John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad