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🇬🇧Richard Aldington

Literature

1892–1962

"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."

"His rise to the status of Republican presidential candidate will stand as a unique historic achievement."

🇦🇷Alberto Manguel

Literature

b. 1948

"Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters."

🇬🇧Will Gompertz

Literature

b. 1965

"Creativity, like society, thrives when the individual elements fit within, and add to, a bigger picture."

Edwin Arnold

Literature

1832–1904

"The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do."

🇬🇧Laurie Penny

Literature

b. 1986

"It’s a mistake to think that the far right cares about the free speech debate as anything other than a way of confusing the enemy. The far right doesn’t have a profound philosophy, it has a media strategy."

🇺🇸Christopher Golden

Literature

b. 1967

"Instead, it had slipped into her subconscious, and worked its way beneath her skin."

🇬🇧Vernon Richards

Technology

1915–2001

"Vernon Richards,from the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia"

🇺🇸Ellen Kushner

Literature

b. 1955

"He felt the almost sexual thrill of being the one in the room with all the power."

🇺🇸Kass Morgan

Literature

b. 1984

"Bellamy worried about her constantly. The kid was special, and he'd do anything to give her a chance at a different life. Anything to make up for what she'd had to endure."

🇺🇸Margaret Caroline Anderson

Literature

modernist literature

1886–1973

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

🇩🇪Gustav Landauer

Philosophy

Materialism

1870–1919

"Now it can become clear to man that freedom and peace of the nations can only come when as Jesus and his followers, and in our time above all Tolstoi advised, they choose to fully abstain from any violence."

🇺🇸Edmund Wilson

Literature

1895–1972

"It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

"The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too."

🇺🇸Jodi Picoult

Literature

b. 1966

"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."

"She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible."