"Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Jennings

#Fun Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.”
“I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.”
“Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.”
“To be treaty person means coexist in peace and with mutual respect. That's at the core of these treaties. They intended for us to mutually benefit from sharing the land and its resources. To us, this contract and agreement is a sacred covenant whose signing was witnessed by your God, we call him the Creator, and by your angels, we call them ancestors. You can't break that. We didn't just sign it one day. It took months to prepare, to plan, to seek guidance.”
“One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc
“If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.”
“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.”
“I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.”

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