#her

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. ↗

— Ice T

#aunt #father #grade #i #live

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#grandmother #smallest #things #valued

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. ↗

— Ice T

#get #into #just #level #make

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#energetic #exhausting #find #life #lots

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#go #happy #i #job #life

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#either #going #i #image #like

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#course #existential #i #life #like

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #must #numerous #state #very

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter