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“I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Ends Audience Streets Waste Performances Thrown Platforms Disgusting Garbage Respectful Subway

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.”

Thinking Enough Numbers Effort Novel Five Figures Waste Thrown Abandoned Waste Of Effort

Author:Mark Haddon

“It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.”

Has Beens Beautiful Lost Teach Novel Materials Type Waste Paper Mass Weak Ignorant Thrown Metals Fragments Immature Serials Sensational Scum

Book:Vegetarianism and Occultism

Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism

“It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.”

Men Made Opportunity Blessing Waste Thrown

Author:John Lubbock

“How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.”

Water Taste Waste Seasons Thrown Salt Salt Water

Book:Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet

Source: Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

Ifs World Humans Animal Sea Land Waste Thrown Manure Humans And Animals

Book:Hugo's Works

Source: Hugo's Works

“Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.”

People Ifs Men Way Needs Ends Dies Culture Cities Poverty Break Drama Waste Normal Computer News Men And Women Tragedy Profit Income Thrown Idols Consumption Trash

Author:Pope Francis

“We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.”

Wells Use Form Process Economy Environment Waste Percent Nuclear Thrown Storage Injection Landfills Nuclear Waste

Author:Paul Hawken

“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

Should Political Results Violence Rocks Produce Waste Obvious Propaganda Thrown Cocktails Molotov Molotov Cocktail Random Violence

Author:Abbie Hoffman