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"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
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"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."
"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."
"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
"In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops " I mean Pride of the Blue Devils.In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in CancAon during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom."
"You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are."
"Political correctness' is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."
"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."
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"I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going."
"I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13."
"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic."
"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."
"You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament."
"I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder."
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