Super Devi

“To all the fish, big or small. May a wave carry you to the top of a tree some day. And from that summit, may you contemplate the immensity of the ocean.”
― Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments

“74. In 1944 a 16-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest on the theme ‘what to do with Hitler after the war’ by submitting a single sentence. “Put him in black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
― Scott Matthews, Interesting, Fun and Crazy Facts of America - The Knowledge Encyclopedia To Win Trivia

“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”
― Paul Valéry, The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14

“The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.”
― Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative