"Usually my ideas are small."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

“Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.”
“The work is more important than the reward.”
“I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven.”
“With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.”
“Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
“The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.”

Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press
“I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”

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