I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Category Archives: 0059 – Quote Unquote
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Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.
~ Murray Rothbard
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Intersectionality is a religious cult that’s dominated higher education for nearly a decade with the shallow but certain idea that power structures are everything, the Neanderthal view that blunt force trumps human dignity.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Three Silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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In the modern world, each ideological wing has claimed a piece of paganism as its own. On the left, there are the world-worshippers, who elevate nature to the summit of sanctity. On the right, you see the worship of force in the forms of wealth, political power, and tribal solidarity. In other words, the paganism of the left is a kind of pantheism, and the paganism of the right is a kind of idolatry. Hug a tree or a dollar bill, and the pagan in you shines through.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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Writers are a sorry lot. The best you can say of them is that they are better than actors and that’s not much.
~ John Steinbeck
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The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro.
~ Marc Chagall
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