Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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The most timeless and emancipatory lesson of the French Revolution is that people make history.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison
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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
~ John le Carré
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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
~ Peter Drucker
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
~ Saul Bellow
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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