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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Je n'entre qu'à moitié dans la guerre civile. Je veux bien y mourir, je ne veux pas y tuer."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"in the Nichtian glossery which purveys aprioric roots for aposteriorious tongues this is nat language at any sinse of the world"

"Emma Goldman Reference Archive at Marxists.org"

"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."

"... the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria ... All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified — which is sometimes useful."

"Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players."

"It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart."

"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

"When Martin teased, he taught Maggie and Marty Jr. to interpret the meaning of a twinkle in his eye, slight alterations of his voice, shifts in his facial expression."

"She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world..."

"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."

"Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously."

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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"Libcom.org/library Frederick Engels archive"

"Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation."

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🇬🇧Tommy Robinson

Social Activism

European Defence League

b. 1982

"The last thing we want is a war in this country, but it is the inevitable outcome for the way the country is going. Now, the British people are not going to sit back and take much more."

"Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong."

"... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible."

"He’d seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure."

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone."

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience."

"I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest."

"I do not mean that bombs and pistols are useless, rather the contrary. But I mean to say that mere bomb-throwing is not only useless but sometimes harmful."

"When I blow up a balloon, I am breathing my soul into an object that becomes eternal."

"I wanted to be sure that there would be no automatic deportation for people after that period because it can be people who are very vulnerable"

"I have been accused of being ignorant of economics , of being ignorant of sociology , of being unable to use statistics and of ignoring political factors ."

"This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude."

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🇬🇧Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Literature

b. 1959

"Jansson was an upper-middle-class bohemian lesbian, living on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland . I was a suburban scouser on a new-build housing estate. It felt as though she was writing just for me."

"At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women’s liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest."

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