"Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo."

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“Sukie had always said that the Alice books were the Old and New Testaments for ghosts—which Pete had never understood; after all, Lewis Carroll hadn’t been dead yet when he’d written them.”

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— Elaine de Kooning

Journalism1918–1989

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"The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile , to appease its hunger."

— P. W. Botha

Politics1916–2006

#freedom

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— Colin Wilson

Literature1989–2013

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