"We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease."

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Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.52, Hachette UK

N.K. Jemisin

#Political Quotes #Ease Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“Authority forgets a dying king.”
“The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.”
“Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.”
“A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who, upon the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents which they did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not got.”
“I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.”
“It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.”
“Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.”

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