Publishing

🇬🇧Ford Madox Ford

Literature

1873–1939

"No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country... nor for the world, I dare say... None... Gone."

"Fanfiction lets you share the kind of story you like with other people who take delight in it, too, and lets you participate in making that sort of story for those people…"

🇺🇸Alice James

Philosophy

b. 1992

"What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading."

🇺🇸Margaret Caroline Anderson

Literature

modernist literature

1886–1973

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

🇺🇸Larry Flynt

Politics

1942–2021

"My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing."

🇺🇸Rachel Khong

Literature

b. 1985

"Memory is everywhere, in the ways we think of ourselves and tell our stories. There are certain kinds of people who have more of a sense of who they are and their whole life story."

🇺🇸Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Literature

Beat Generation

1919–2021

"Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations."

🇨🇦Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Literature

b. 1981

"People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…"

Charles Kegan Paul

Religion

Positivism

1828–1902

"Literature has had little to say of the labourer; and this, not that his class is lacking in interest, in poetry, in romance, but simply because those sections of society to which writers belong know nothing about him."

🇵🇱Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Politics

b. 1942

"Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral could choose to produce oscypek however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him."

🇩🇪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."

🇫🇷Maylis de Kerangal

Literature

b. 1967

"I am the sort of writer who needs another form to tell me who I am and what has happened to me…I think all my novels are self-portraits, but there’s no one character who resolves me, or catalyses me, or is me."

🇩🇪Helmut Schmidt

Politics

1918–2015

"Science and future, that is a contradiction."