"Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of possible meanings. But I also value the readers' autonomy, their right to both read and misread."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

C.E. Morgan

#Arrows Quotes #Should Quotes #Aspect Quotes

“And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.”
“It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.”
“That is the best Government, which best provides for war.”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1805). “Discourses on Government”, p.212
“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

Source : "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.
“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.”

Source : Quoted in Arthur Livingstone (ed) TheMind and Society (1935).
“We all played bad before we played good.”
“Where there is no waste, there is no want.”
“If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.”

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