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Mervyn Peake wrote:"Thank heavens it's all over now."
"What is?"
"My youth. It took too long and got in my way."
"In your way Mr Thirst? How do you mean?"
"It went on for so long," said Thirst. "I had about thirty years of it. You know what I mean. Experiment, experiment, experiment. And now..."
"Ah!" whispered someone.

Titus Alone

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• I read the newspaper avidly.
  It is my one form of continuous fiction.

~ Arthur Christopher Benson (b 1862), English essayist, poet, author

• Like most poets, preachers, and metaphysicians,
  he burst into conclusion at a spark of evidence.

~ Finley Peter Dunne (b 1867), author, writer, humorist

• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color
  for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations
  which would decline to carry it on the grounds that
  a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

~ Edward Roscoe Murrow (b 1908), broadcast journalist

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

"Between equal rights, force decides." -- Das Kapital

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• If you’re not prepared to be wrong,
  you’ll never come up with anything original.

~ Sir Ken Robinson (b 1950), British born, speaker, author,
consultant for creativity and innovation in business and education;
also of TED dot com fame.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch


It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T.H. Huxley.

'A dark tide is rising, and within weeks you're going to see on TV or witness in front of your eyes overt acts of hostility against a regime people feel is unjust and corrupt.

This will mark the beginning of... a period of social change not seen since the 1960's. It is a worldwide phenomenon, and will manifest in different ways in different countries, depending on the cultural evolution of the region in question.

It's all coming to a sharp point.'

--Michael Lutin, May, 2010

'Eros is life. Puritanism is the great enemy.'

--Anonymous

'I come from Burn Down Babylon'

--Alan

I go, I go; look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

- Puck

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

- Lou Reed

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

- George Saunders

"As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence. Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do. And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure."

~Vladimir Solovyov

"I was fascinated. Fascination being, after all, only the extreme of detachment." Roland Barthes

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• None who have always been free can understand
  the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom
  to those who are not free.

~ Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker (Pearl Buck, b 1892), American writer,
1932 Pulitzer Prize, 1938 Literature Nobel Prize

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• There had been a swift and noiseless rush underneath
  the stone; a few grains of sand rose up where the white
  under part of the trout had touched it as it glided beneath.
  Slowly and imperceptibly Winsome's hand worked its way
  beneath the stone. With the fingers of one hand she made
  that slight swirl of the water which is supposed by expert
  guddlers to fascinate the trout, and to render them incapable
  of resisting the beckoning fingers.

from The Lilac Sunbonnet pub 1894

~ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (b 1859), Scottish novelist

"Black people are not good at crime. Been here since 1619 and haven't produced a single Martha Stewart or Ken Lay."

~ Ishmael Reed ~

"If we dig precious things from the earth, we will invite disaster."

— a Hopi prophecy from Koyaanisqatsi, "Life Out of Balance"